How index status checks work

Search engines have to do three things before a page can rank: discover the URL, crawl it, and decide it is worth indexing. This tool inspects the most common signals that determine whether a URL is technically eligible to appear in Google or Bing — without violating any search-engine terms of service.

HTTPS & HTTP status — pages must return 200 OK over HTTPS.
robots.txt — must not disallow Googlebot from the URL path.
meta robots & X-Robots-Tag — must not contain noindex.
Canonical — should point to the same URL, or Google will index the canonical instead.
Sitemap — a referenced sitemap helps crawlers discover the URL.
Title, description, content — thin pages often get dropped from the index.

For deeper index status (whether the URL is currently in Google's index, last crawl date, indexing verdict), sign up and connect Google Search Console — we'll run the official URL Inspection API for you.