How to Check If a Website Is Indexed by Google

You launched a site, or published a page, and want to know whether Google has it. Two checks answer that: a search operator for a rough answer, and Search Console for the definitive one.

Run a site: search

In Google, search for:

site:yourdomain.com

The results list pages Google has indexed from that domain. No results means Google has not indexed anything yet. The result count, if one is shown, is an estimate and changes from search to search.

Check a single page

Narrow the operator to one URL:

site:yourdomain.com/specific-page

If the page appears, it is indexed. If nothing comes back, search for the page's exact title in quotes as a second check, since site: can miss recently indexed pages.

Inspect the URL in Search Console

Open Google Search Console, select the property for your domain (you need to have verified ownership first), and paste the full URL into the search bar at the top of the page. The result says either URL is on Google or URL is not on Google, along with the last crawl date, the canonical Google selected, and the reason for any exclusion. If the page is not on Google, click Request indexing to put it in the crawl queue.

Read the Pages report

In the left menu under Indexing, open Pages. The report splits every URL Google knows about into indexed and not indexed, with a reason for each excluded group, such as "Crawled - currently not indexed" or "Excluded by 'noindex' tag". Click a reason to see the affected URLs. This is the only place to see site-wide status in one view.

site: results are approximate. The operator can omit indexed pages and the count is not reliable. Treat it as a quick signal and Search Console as the source of truth.

New sites take time. Google can take days to weeks to crawl and index a new domain. Submitting a sitemap in Search Console under Indexing then Sitemaps speeds discovery up but does not guarantee that every page gets indexed.