URL Inspection Tool The URL Inspection tool provides information about Google’s indexed version of a specific page, and also allows you to test whether a URL might be indexable
URL Inspection tool provides detailed crawl, index, and serving information about your pages, directly from the Google index. Search Console
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The URL Inspection tool provides information about Google’s indexed version of a specific page, and also allows you to test whether a URL might be indexable. Information includes details about structured data, video, linked AMP, and indexing/indexability
- Type the fully-qualified URL to inspect in the inspection search bar at the top of any Search Console screen. The URL must be in the currently opened property.
- Click an Inspect
link next to a page URL in most reports. Sometimes you need to hover over the URL to see this option
Common tasks
- See the status of a URL in the Google index: Retrieve information about Google’s indexed version of your page. See why Google could or couldn’t index your page.
- Inspect a live URL: Test whether a page on your site might be indexable.
- Request indexing for a URL: Request that a URL be crawled by Google.
- View a rendered version of the page: See a screenshot of how Googlebot sees the page.
- View loaded resources, JavaScript output, and other information: To see a list of resources, page code, and more information, click View crawled page > More info (indexed result) or View tested page > More info (live test).
- Troubleshoot a missing page: There can be many reasons why a page hasn’t been indexed. URL Inspection can help troubleshoot some of them.
- Learn your canonical page: Inspect the indexed version of the page and look at the Page indexing > Google-selected canonical field. You can determine the canonical version only in the indexed data; the live test cannot predict whether or not the tested version will be considered canonical.
The test results don’t test for the following things, which are required to appear in Google:
- The page and its structured data must conform to quality and security guidelines.
- Whether the site is free of manual actions or security issues. URL Inspection Tool
- Whether the site or page is subject to content removal for legal or other reasons.
- Whether a URL has been temporarily blocked in Search Console.
- (Live test) Whether a video is indexed or not. Live test reports only if a video is detected, not if it’s indexed.
See the status of a URL in the Google index
You can request detailed Google index information about a URL in your property, including indexability, any rich results or videos found, and more.
To see information in the Google index about a URL:
- Open the URL Inspection tool.
- Enter the complete URL to inspect. A few notes:
- The URL must be in the current property. To test a URL in a property that you don’t own, use the appropriate non-owner test, such as the Rich Results test or AMP test.
- AMP vs non-AMP URLs: You can inspect both AMP and non-AMP URLs. The tool provides information about the corresponding AMP and non-AMP version of the page.
- Canonical/Alternate status: If the page is an alternate/duplicate versions, the tool also provides information about the canonical version, if the canonical version is in a property that you own.
- Read Understanding the results.
- If you’ve fixed issues since the data was acquired, test the live URL to see if Google thinks these issues are fixed. Note that not all issues can be tested.
- Optionally request indexing for the URL.
There is a daily limit of inspection requests for each property that you own.
About the indexed URL status
Key points
- This is not a live test. The results shown are from most recently indexed version of a page, not the live version on the web. The information from the index is used by Google in search results. Your page may have changed or become unavailable since Google last saw it. To test the current version of the page as Google would see it, select the Live Test button on the page.
- “URL is on Google” doesn’t actually guarantee that your page will appear in Search results. The report doesn’t check all conditions for appearing on Google. For a definitive test of whether your URL is appearing, search for the page URL on Google.
- If the URL redirects to another URL, the results reflect the tested URL in the index, not the redirect target in the index. To see the indexing results for the canonical of a redirected page, click the INSPECT button in the Page indexing > Indexing section. URL Inspection Tool
Understanding the results
- Read the overall page status at the top of the tool to see whether or not the URL is eligible to appear in Google Search results: URL is on Google means that the URL is eligible to appear in Search results, but is not guaranteed to be there. URL is not on Google means that the URL can’t appear in Search results.
- Expand the Page indexing or Video indexing sections to see more details:
- Discovery: How Google found the URL.
- Crawl: If Google was able to crawl the page, when it was crawled, or any obstacles that it encountered when crawling the URL. If the status is URL is not on Google, the reason why can generally be found here.
- Indexing: The canonical URL that Google chose for this page. URL Inspection Tool
- Enhancements & experience: If you have structured data, if the page is an AMP or has an associated AMP, you will see details in the Enhancements section.
- To see information about the request, including the HTTP request and response, and the returned HTML, click View crawled page. If this link is disabled, it is because there was a problem fetching the page; hover over the disabled button to see the reason.
The index status includes the following information:
Run a live test of a URL in your property to check for indexing issues, structured data, and more. The life test is useful when fixing your page, to test whether an issue was fixed.
To run a live test for potential indexing errors:
- Inspect the URL. Note: it’s fine if the page hasn’t been indexed yet, or has failed indexing, but the page must be accessible from the internet without any login requirements.
- Click Test live URL.
- Read understanding the live test results URL Inspection Tool to understand what you’re looking at.
- You can toggle between the live test results and the indexed results by clicking Google Index or Live Test on the page.
- To rerun a live test, click the re-run test button
on the test page.
- To see details about the page, including a screenshot and HTTP response headers, click View crawled page.
There is a per-property daily limit of live inspections.
About the live test results
Key points:
- This is a live test: the tool fetches and examines the URL in real time. The information shown in the live test can differ from the indexed URL for reasons described below.
- The live test does not check for the presence of the URL in any sitemaps or any referring pages.
- The live test does not test for all possible indexing issues, including whether this is a duplicate or alternate page. Duplicate pages aren’t indexed.
- The live test does not check that your page conforms to quality and security guidelines, manual actions, content removals, or temporarily blocked URLs.
- The Indexable status in the live URL can be different from the Page availability status on the indexed URL for these reasons:
- You have changed or fixed something in the live URL, such as removing (or adding) a noindex tag or a robots.txt block, and the changes were not yet indexed. Examine the difference between the indexed and live results, or check the page version history on your site to discover the differences between the indexed version and the live version.
- The live test does not support all the index states in the indexed version. Some states in the indexed version aren’t tested or don’t make sense in a live test, and will be reported differently in the live test. See the indexable section details to learn the unsupported states.
- The live test reports on detected videos on the page, but does not report on the indexing status of the video
- The test first follows any redirects implemented by the page, then tests the page. However, the test does not indicate that it has followed a redirect, nor will it display the final URL that was tested.
Does a valid result mean that my page will be indexed?
No. URL Inspection Tool The live URL test only confirms whether Googlebot can access your page for indexing. There is no definitive test that can guarantee whether your page will be included in the Google index. Even if you get a valid or warning verdict in the live test, your page must still fulfill other conditions in order to be indexed. For instance URL Inspection Tool
- The page cannot be subject to any manual actions or legal issues.
- The page cannot be a duplicate of another indexed page; it must either be unique, or selected as the canonical version of a set of similar pages.
- The page quality must be high enough to warrant indexing.
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