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Free Google Index Checker

Check whether Google has indexed your pages, up to 5 URLs at a time. No sign-up required.

How to check if a page is indexed

This google indexing checker runs the same query you would run by hand, once per URL, and compares what comes back against what you submitted. As a bulk google index checker it does several at once, which is the part that makes an indexation checker worth opening rather than typing the query yourself. Indexing is binary and worth checking directly rather than inferring.

1. Paste your URLs

Up to 5 page URLs, one per line. This bulk index checker queries each one against Google separately rather than guessing from the domain.

2. See what Google has

Each URL comes back as indexed, not found, or unknown. Unknown means the lookup itself failed, which is deliberately kept distinct from a page genuinely being missing.

3. Confirm the important ones

For pages you care about, verify in Search Console's URL Inspection tool, which reads Google's index directly for sites you have verified.

Why this tool will not give you an indexed page count

It is the most requested feature on any index checker, and it cannot be answered honestly, so this tool does not pretend to. Google caps how many results a site: query returns. Asking for a hundred results against a large domain returns the same ten as asking for ten, and the total Google reports alongside them stopped being a measurement a long time ago.

That is why several free tools will confidently tell you a site has some precise number of pages indexed. The number is not wrong so much as meaningless. Search Console's Pages report is the only source that actually knows, it is free, and it also tells you why pages are excluded, which is the more useful half.

What a site: query does answer reliably is the narrow question: is this exact URL present? That returns a direct match or nothing, with no interpretation required. So the tool is built around that question and the domain mode shows a labelled sample rather than a fabricated total.

Indexed is not the same as indexable

Two different questions get confused constantly, and answering the wrong one wastes a lot of time:

Is Google allowed to index this page? A question about your own directives: noindex tags, robots.txt, canonicals, x-robots headers. Our Noindex Checker answers that by reading the page.
Has Google actually indexed it? A question about the live index, which this page answers by querying it.

They come apart in both directions. A page can be perfectly indexable and still not indexed, usually because Google has not got to it or judged it not worth storing. A page can also carry a noindex tag and still appear for a while, because the directive only takes effect once Google recrawls. If a page is missing, check whether it is blocked first, then whether it has simply not been crawled.

What to do when a page is not indexed

Work through it in this order, because the cheap checks rule out most cases:

How new is it? A page published this week on a site without much authority may simply be waiting. This is the most common answer and the least satisfying.
Is something blocking it? A noindex tag, a robots.txt disallow, or an x-robots-tag header.
Is a canonical pointing elsewhere? If so Google indexed the target instead, which is working as intended rather than a fault.
Can Google find it? A page with no internal links pointing at it is hard to discover. Sitemaps help, internal links help more.
Is there enough there? Google crawls plenty of pages and declines to index them, usually for thin or near-duplicate content. This is the hardest to fix and the easiest to deny.

Frequently asked questions

Is my website indexed by Google?

Run your homepage and a few key pages through the checker above and you will know in seconds. If the homepage of a live site comes back as not found, that points to a site-wide problem rather than a page-level one: check robots.txt, then look for a site-wide noindex, which is a common leftover from a staging environment.

How can I check if Google is indexing my site?

Paste the URLs you care about into the tool above and it queries Google for each one. For a site you own, Search Console is the authoritative answer: the Pages report shows what is indexed and, more usefully, why anything is not. A site: query like the one this tool runs is the fastest external check, and works for any site rather than only your own.

How to check index in Google?

Search Google for site: followed by the exact URL. If the page comes back, it is indexed. If nothing comes back, it almost certainly is not. This tool automates that for several URLs at once and compares what Google returns against what you submitted, since Google sometimes has a slightly different version of the address.

How to check indexing status?

Three levels, depending on how definitive you need to be. A site: query is instant and works on any site. Search Console's URL Inspection tool is authoritative but only for sites you have verified. The Pages report in Search Console is the one that tells you why something is excluded, which is usually the question behind the question.

What is a Google index?

It is the database of pages Google has crawled, processed and stored, ready to be returned in search results. Being crawled is not the same as being indexed: Google may visit a page and decide not to store it, commonly because it considers the content thin, duplicated elsewhere, or blocked by a directive. If a page is not in the index it cannot rank, whatever else you do to it.

Is Google indexing free?

Yes. Google crawls and indexes the open web at no cost, and there is nothing to pay to be included. You also cannot pay to be indexed faster, whatever services selling instant indexing imply. Search Console lets you request indexing for a specific URL for free, though a request is a hint rather than a guarantee.

Why is my page not indexed?

The usual causes, roughly in order: the page is too new and simply has not been crawled yet; a noindex tag or robots.txt rule is blocking it; a canonical tag points at a different URL so Google indexed that one instead; or Google crawled it and judged the content too thin or too similar to something it already has. The first two are worth ruling out before assuming the last.

How long does it take Google to index a new page?

Anywhere from a few hours to several weeks. Established sites that publish often get crawled quickly, while a brand new site with few links can wait a long time. Submitting a sitemap and requesting indexing in Search Console helps, and internal links from pages that are already indexed help more than most people expect.

How many pages of my site are indexed?

No external tool can tell you reliably, including this one, and it is worth being suspicious of any that claims to. Google caps how many results a site: query returns and stopped standing behind the result count it reports, so the totals those tools show are not measurements. Search Console's Pages report is the only trustworthy source, and it is free for sites you own.

Does a site: query show everything Google has indexed?

No. A site: query is a rough diagnostic rather than a complete listing, and Google deliberately limits how deep it goes. It is reliable for the question this tool asks, which is whether one specific URL is present, because that returns a direct match or nothing at all. It is not reliable for enumerating a whole site.

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