See what Google has actually indexed

A freelance designer spent a weekend building a proper portfolio site, wrote careful project descriptions, and still gets zero search traffic months later — not because the writing is weak or the design is unappealing, but because several pages were never indexed by Google at all, due to a missing sitemap nobody thought to check for. A page cannot rank for anything, however well-optimised, if Google never found and stored it in the first place.

Crawl and index status checker pulls the site's own index-coverage data straight from Search Console, showing which pages are indexed, which are excluded and why, and which submitted sitemap pages Google hasn't picked up yet. Where a page should be indexed but isn't, it explains the likely reason in plain language — a "noindex" tag, a robots.txt block, a missing internal link — so the designer knows exactly what's actually blocking discovery.

Index status is the one area where first-party data is not just preferable but essentially the only trustworthy source available — no paid third-party tool can see what Google has genuinely indexed with more authority than Search Console reporting itself, since indexing is a decision only Google's own systems make and record. This capability relies entirely on the Search Console API rather than any paid alternative, because there is none worth trusting more for this specific question.

Google enforces a rate limit on URL Inspection lookups per property, which matters directly for how a "check every page" request actually has to work. Firing inspection requests for every page on a site simultaneously would exceed that limit quickly, so bulk checks are queued and spread out over time rather than attempted all at once — a site with hundreds of pages needing individual inspection will see that process take a while, a real constraint from Google's side, not a slow design choice.

Index coverage also naturally lags behind the current, live state of a page by some number of days, because it reflects Google's last crawl of that page, not a continuous real-time record. A page fixed yesterday — a noindex tag removed, a robots.txt block corrected — won't instantly show as newly indexable here; it will show its status as of whenever Google's crawler last actually visited it, which can be anywhere from a day to considerably longer. Treat this as an honest, slightly delayed record of Google's last look, not a live mirror of the site's current state.