URL Inspection Tool

Well-nigh the URL Inspection tool

The URL Inspection tool provides information almost Google'southward indexed version of a specific page. Information includes AMP errors, structured data errors, and indexing bug.

Mutual tasks:

  • See the current index status of a URL: Think information about Google's indexed version of your page. See why Google could or couldn't index your folio.
  • Inspect a alive URL: Test whether a page on your site is able to exist indexed.
  • Request indexing for a URL: Y'all can request that an URL be crawled (or recrawled) past Google.
  • View a rendered version of the folio: Run into a screenshot of how Googlebot sees the page.
  • View loaded resources, JavaScript output, and other information: See a list of resource, folio lawmaking, and more information by clicking View crawled folio (indexed upshot) or View tested page (live exam).
  • Troubleshoot a missing page: There tin can exist many reasons why a page hasn't been indexed. URL Inspection can aid troubleshoot some of them.

Open URL Inspection Tool

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See the current index status of a URL

Encounter detailed Google Index information virtually a URL in your holding.

To run the URL Inspection tool to see URL's current index status:

  1. Open the URL Inspection tool.
  2. Enter the complete URL to inspect. A few notes:
    • The URL must be in the current property. URLs outside the current property cannot exist tested. If you ain that other property, you must switch properties to test the URL.
    • AMP vs non-AMP URLs: Y'all tin can inspect both AMP and non-AMP URLs. The tool provides information about the corresponding AMP or not-AMP version of the page.
    • Alternating page versions: If the page has alternating/duplicate versions, the tool also provides data well-nigh the canonical version, if the canonical version is in a holding that you ain.
  3. Read how to understand the results.
  4. Optionally run an indexability exam on the live URL
  5. Optionally asking indexing for the URL.

There is a daily limit of inspection requests for each property that y'all own.

Understanding the results: Indexed URL

Of import notes:

  • This is not a live test. This tool describes the most recently indexed version of a folio, not the live version on the spider web. The information shown in the tool is used by Google to evaluate Search results. Your folio may have changed or become unavailable since Google last saw it. To test the electric current version of the page as Google would see it, select the Alive Test button on the page.
  • "URL is on Google" doesn't actually mean that your page is appearing in Search results. Actual appearance in Search results requires that the folio and its structured data adjust to quality and security guidelines. The URL Inspection tool doesn't take into account manual actions, content removals, or temporarily blocked URLs. To see if your URL is actualization, search for your URL on Google; if your URL is missing but this tool says it was indexed, here'southward how to find out why.
  • The "Last crawl" appointment in the Coverage section shows the date when the information shown here was retrieved (if the folio was successfully crawled).
  1. Read the presence status at the height 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, only is not guaranteed to be at that place. URL is not on Google ways that the URL tin can't announced in Search results.
  2. Expand the Coverage section to see more details:
    • Discovery: How Google institute the URL.
    • Clamber: If Google was able to crawl the page, when it was crawled, or whatever obstacles that it encountered when crawling the URL. If the status is non URL is on Google, the reason why can by and large exist found here.
    • Indexing: The approved URL that Google chose for this page.
  3. Enhancements: If you lot have structured data, if the page is an AMP or has an associated AMP, you lot will run across details in the Enhancements section. This section also includes mobile usability testing.
  4. To see data 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 in that location was a problem fetching the page; hover over the disabled button to see the reason.

The inspection results include the post-obit expandable sections:

Presence on Google (URL status)

The top section of the written report provides a summary evaluation almost whether or non the URL is eligible to appear in Google Search results (with some caveats). The following values are possible:

URL is on Google

  • What it means: The URL has been indexed, can appear in Google Search results, and no problems were found with whatever enhancements institute in the folio (structured data, linked AMP pages, and so on).
    Important: "URL is on Google" doesn't actually hateful that your page is appearing in Search results. Actual appearance in Search results requires that the page and its structured data arrange to Google's quality and security guidelines. The URL Inspection tool doesn't take into account manual deportment, security problems, or temporarily blocked URLs. To run across if your URL is appearing, search for your URL on Google; if your URL is missing but this tool says information technology was indexed, find out why.
  • What to do adjacent: Typically cipher, although yous tin explore what Google knows almost your page by navigating into the details of the index coverage or enhancement sections.

URL is on Google, simply has bug

  • What it means: The URL has been indexed and can appear in Google Search results, but there are some problems that might prevent it from appearing with the enhancements that you lot practical to the page. This might mean a problem with an associated AMP page, or malformed structured data for a rich upshot (such as a recipe or task posting) on the page. Read the "Important" section of URL is on Google above to see more than caveats.
  • What to do next: Read the warnings or errors information in the tool and effort to fix the problems described.

URL is non on Google: Indexing errors

  • What it means: In that location was at least ane disquisitional error that prevented the URL from being indexed, and it cannot appear in Google Search until those issues are fixed.
  • What to practise side by side: Aggrandize the Index coverage section to see details almost the indexing attempt. Meet the list of index coverage errors and possible set steps.

URL is non on Google

  • What it means: This URL won't appear in Google Search results, just nosotros call back that was your intention. Common reasons include that the page is password-protected or robots.txt protected, or blocked by a noindex directive.
  • What to exercise side by side: Read the details in the Index coverage section to acquire more about the reason. A few possible reasons:
    • If the "User-alleged canonical" and "Google-selected canonical" values are different, this ways that this URL is one of a set of similar pages, and Google has called to index some other version of the same folio. In that location's probably no need to do anything here, though you might consider removing your explicit canonical tag, or considering why you need another folio as approved.
    • If there is a noindex or robots.txt blockage that you didn't expect (meet the Coverage section), you must remove that blockage to allow Google to access your site.
    • URL is unknown to Google: Run into the description in the Coverage section.
    • For other index coverage reasons, read the listing of values and possible set up instructions.

URL is an alternating version

  • What it ways: This URL is ane of a fix of alternate versions of the same page. Google knows about this page and the canonical folio, and might serve this folio in sure conditions, but will typically adopt to serve the canonical page. For example, y'all might have submitted is the desktop URL for a site that is mobile-get-go, or that you have submitted the URL of an AMP page that has a approved non-AMP version. The Crawled as value in the tool shows which crawler type (mobile or desktop) considers this to exist an alternate version. You tin can run into the indexed URL as the Google-selected canonical value nether Index coverage.
  • What to exercise: Generally there is nothing to do, though yous might bank check the Google-selected canonical to brand sure it is an expected page.

Coverage

This section provides data virtually whether Google could find and index the page.

Coverage condition
The department heading includes a short, descriptive reason for the condition of the URL, explaining why the URL is or isn't on Google. The following values are supported:
  • A success, alarm, failure, or excluded value listed and described here
  • URL is unknown to Google: This means that Google hasn't indexed the URL either because it hasn't seen the URL before, or because information technology has institute it as a properly marked alternate page, but information technology tin't be crawled. To fix, run a alive inspection, fix any issues y'all might run across, and submit the folio for indexing. (Hint: if this is a properly marked but uncrawlable alternate page, if you inspect the canonical page you volition run into this page listed, with a crawl error.)
Sitemaps
Whatsoever known sitemaps that point to this URL. Annotation : This includes only sitemaps submitted using the Sitemaps report or listed in the robots.txt for this site. Sitemaps discovered through other means won't be listed. For larger or new sites, it is a skillful practice to provide a sitemap to assistance Google know which pages to crawl. See known issues.
Referring page
A page that Google possibly used to discover this URL. The referring page might directly link to this URL, or information technology might be a grandparent or great-grandparent of a folio that links to this URL. If this value is absent it doesn't hateful that no referring folio exists, merely that this data might not be available to the URL Inspection tool at this time. If you encounter "URL might be known from other sources that are currently not reported", it ways that Google constitute this URL through some means other than a sitemap or referring folio, but the referring information currently isn't available to this tool.
Final crawl
The terminal time this folio was crawled past Google, in your local fourth dimension. All information shown in this tool is derived from this concluding crawled version.
Crawled as
The user agent type used for the crawl (desktop or mobile).
Crawl allowed?
Indicates whether your site allowed Google to crawl (visit) the folio or blocked information technology with a robots.txt dominion. If you did not intend to cake Google, you should remove blocking rule from robots.txt. Read how to set a blocked page. Annotation that this value is not the aforementioned as allowing indexing, which is given by the "Indexing immune?" value.
Page fetch
Whether or not Google could actually go the page from your server. If crawling is not allowed, this field will show a failure. If crawling is allowed, page fetch might still neglect for various reasons. See explanations of fetch failures. "Crawl allowed?" indicates whether you want the page to be reachable; "Page fetch" indicates whether, if allowed, Google could actually reach the page.
Indexing immune?
Whether or not your folio explicitly disallowed indexing. If indexing is disallowed, the reason is explained, and the page won't appear in Google Search results. Of import If your page is blocked past robots.txt (see Crawl allowed?), and so Indexing allowed? will ever exist "Aye" because Google tin can't run into and respect any noindex directives. Because of this, your page might appear in Search results.
User-declared approved
If your page explicitly declares a canonical URL, information technology will be shown here. If your page is not an alternating page, the value None is fine hither. If your folio is one of a set of alternate pages, we recommend explicitly declaring the canonical URL. You lot tin declare a canonical URL in several means: a <link rel="canonical"> tag, an HTTP header, a sitemap, or a few other methods. There is no guarantee that Google will choose your preferred approved, but nosotros volition have this into consideration. For AMP pages, the approved should be the non-AMP version (unless information technology is a cocky-canonical AMP).
Google-selected approved

The folio that Google selected every bit the canonical (administrative) URL, when information technology found similar or duplicate pages on your site. Google might select the user-declared canonical, but sometimes Google might cull another URL that it considers a better canonical case. If the page has no alternate versions, the Google-selected approved is the inspected URL. If you observe an unexpected page hither, consider explicitly declaring a canonical version.

The canonical URL is not ever the 1 shown in Search results: for example, if a page has both a desktop canonical and a mobile version, Google will probably show the URL appropriate for your current device.

Note that this value tin can be a few hours behind the value in our index.

If the inspected page is not the canonical URL, you tin inspect the Google-selected canonical URL by selecting Audit (simply only if the URL is in a property that you manage).

Enhancements (Mobile usability, AMP, and more)

This department describes any Search enhancements detected by Google on your URL the last time it was indexed. If the URL could not exist indexed, or no enhancements were detected, this section will exist empty.

This tool does non nevertheless show all possible enhancements. Here are the enhancements supported by this tool:

Mobile Usability

Detect whether your page is like shooting fish in a barrel to use on a mobile device. Not all pages are tested for mobile usability.

The following verdicts are possible:

  • Folio is not mobile friendly: The page won't piece of work well on a mobile device because of a few bug. See descriptions of the possible errors.
  • Page is mobile friendly: The page should probably work well on a mobile device. More details.
  • No data available: For some reason we couldn't retrieve the page or examination its mobile-friendliness. Please wait a bit and try over again.

Click the verdict row to get more details about mobile usability for this URL.

AMP

If the page has a linked AMP version, y'all can see information about it by selecting the row in the tool. Use this data to assist find and troubleshoot AMP-specific indexing and other bug.

Details shown hither employ to the AMP version referenced by the current page; they do not utilize to the current page.

In addition to standard AMP errors, you might see these Google-specific AMP errors.

To meet other pages on your site affected past a specific outcome, select the effect description row, then select Open up Report.

An URL page inspected with URL Inspection tool as an AMP tin have the post-obit possible statuses:

  • AMP folio is valid / Web Story is valid: The AMP is valid and indexed.
  • AMP page is invalid / Web Story is invalid: The AMP has an error that will preclude it from beingness indexed.
  • AMP page isn't indexed / Web Story isn't indexed (indexed version) or AMP page cannot be indexed / Web Story cannot exist indexed (alive inspection): The page is blocked from indexing, typically because of a robots.txt dominion or a noindex directive.
  • AMP page is valid with warnings / Spider web Story is valid with warnings: AMP can exist indexed, but there are some issues that might prevent information technology from getting total features, or it uses tags or attributes that are deprecated, and might become invalid in the future.
  • Not an AMP page: The page inspected was not an AMP folio.

Various rich consequence types

Y'all can run across information nearly any rich result types (structured data) constitute on the folio. Information includes the number of valid items found on the URL, descriptions of each item, and details about any warnings or errors found. The following rich result types are supported:

  • Breadcrumb
  • Dataset
  • Consequence
  • FAQ
  • Fact bank check
  • Guided recipe
  • How-to
  • Paradigm License
  • Job posting
  • Logo
  • Product
  • Q&A folio
  • Recipe
  • Review snippet
  • Sitelinks searchbox
  • Special Announcement
  • Video

My rich result isn't here! Not all rich outcome types are supported by the tool yet. Unsupported types might be present and valid on the page, and can appear in Search results, but won't appear in the tool.

Additional response data

Additional fetch information is merely available in tests with a status of URL is on Google or URL is on Google, just has issues.

To run across boosted response data such as the raw HTML returned, the HTTP headers, JavaScript console output, and any page resources loaded, click View crawled page. A screenshot of the rendered page is bachelor only in a live exam.

Live URL test

You tin can test a live URL in your property to see whether it is capable of existence indexed past Google. This volition run a examination against the live page for information like to the indexed URL. It is useful when you lot desire to examination changes in the folio against the currently indexed version of the page.

To examination a alive URL for potential indexing errors:

  1. Audit the indexed URL. Note: it's fine if the page hasn't been indexed all the same, or has failed indexing, but it must be accessible from the internet without whatever login data.
  2. Click Test live URL on the index results page.
  3. Read understanding the live test results to understand what you're looking at.
  4. You can toggle between the live examination results and the indexed results by selecting Google Index or Live Test on the page.
  5. To rerun a live test, select the Reload (reload) push on the page.
  6. To see details most the page, including a screenshot and HTTP response headers, select View crawled page.

At that place is a per-belongings daily limit of live inspections.

Understanding the results: Live exam

Important notes:

  • This is a live test. This 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 beneath.
  • The live test does not check for the presence of the URL in any sitemaps or any referring pages.
  • The Indexable status in the alive URL can be unlike from the Index coverage condition on the indexed URL for these reasons:
    • You have changed or fixed something in the live URL, such as removing (or calculation) a noindex tag or a robots.txt cake, and the changes were non yet indexed. Examine the departure in the Indexed and Live tests, or cheque the page version history on your site to detect the differences between the indexed version and the live version.
    • The live examination does not back up all the index states in the indexed version. Some states in the indexed version aren't tested or don't brand sense in a live examination, and will be reported differently in the live test. See the indexable section details to learn the unsupported states.

Does a valid result mean that my page will exist indexed?

No. This test merely confirms that Googlebot can admission your page for indexing. Even if you get a valid or warning verdict in the live exam, your page must still fulfill other conditions in order to be indexed. For instance:

  • The folio cannot be field of study to any manual deportment 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 like pages.
  • The page quality must be high plenty to warrant indexing.

The inspection results include the following expandable sections:

URL status (alive examination)

The tiptop department of the report gives a general evaluation of whether or not the alive URL can be indexed. A positive effect is not a guarantee that it volition appear in Search results, simply information technology means that the URL can exist crawled and parsed. The URL Inspection tool doesn't take into account manual actions, content removals, quality and security issues, or temporarily blocked URLs.

Important: The alive test does not encompass all possible indexing weather condition. Problems marked "no" in this table are not checked in the live test, and can occur when the folio is indexed, no matter what the live URL status is.

The post-obit values are possible:

URL is available to Google

  • What information technology means: The URL isn't blocked and doesn't have whatsoever detectable errors to foreclose full indexing. If Google indexes the URL it can announced in Google Search results, provided that information technology conforms to quality and security guidelines, and is not bailiwick to transmission actions, content removals, or temporarily blocked URLs. See which issues are not checked.
  • What to do next: If the page is different from the indexed version, you tin request indexing by selecting the button on the page. Alternatively you lot could submit a sitemap, or wait for it to be crawled naturally.

URL is available to Google, only has issues

  • What it ways: The URL can be indexed by Google, but there are some problems that might forestall it from appearing with the enhancements that you tried to implement. This might mean a problem with an associated AMP page, or malformed structured information for a rich result (such as a recipe or job posting) on the folio. Come across which issues are not checked.
  • What to practice next: Read the warnings or errors information in the tool and try to ready the problems described.

URL is non bachelor to Google

  • What information technology ways: This URL can't appear in Google Search results due to a critical issue.
  • What to practice side by side: Read the details in the Availability section to acquire more than almost the reason.

URL is an alternate version

  • What it means: The URL is non considered the canonical version of this page, so information technology is not indexed, merely this is not an error.
  • What to do next: Probably nix. Google has a approved URL for this page that should be indexed. The current alphabetize information will show the approved URL in Coverage > Google-selected canonical.

Availability (live examination)

This department of the tool describes whether the page can exist indexed by Google. However, a positive result is no guarantee that it will appear in Search results.

The page and its structured data must arrange to Google's quality and security guidelines. The live URL inspection likewise doesn't take into account manual actions, security issues, content removals, or temporarily blocked URLs.

Availability status
The section heading includes a short, descriptive reason for the status of the URL, explaining why the URL is or isn't on Google. This will exist "URL tin be indexed" if the URL is able to be indexed, or a alert or failure value similar to (but non exactly the aforementioned equally) those listed and described here. See details.
Time
The time of the live test.
Crawled as
The user agent blazon used for the live test.
Crawl allowed?
Indicates whether your site will allow Google to crawl (visit) the page, or block it with a robots.txt rule. If yous don't want to block Google, yous should remove the robots.txt block. Note that this is not the same as allowing indexing, which is given by the "Indexing allowed?" value. Read how to fix a blocked page.
Page fetch
Whether or not Google could actually become the folio from your server. If itch is not allowed, this field will show a failure. If crawling is allowed, folio fetch might even so fail for various reasons. See explanations of fetch failures. "Crawl allowed?" indicates whether you lot want the folio to be reachable; "Page fetch" indicates whether, if allowed, Google could actually achieve the page.
Indexing allowed?
Whether or not your page explicitly disallows indexing. If indexing is disallowed, the reason is explained, and the page won't appear in Google Search results. Important If your folio is blocked by robots.txt (see "Clamber allowed"), so "Indexing immune" will ever be "Yes" because Google can't see and respect any noindex directives. Because of this, your page might appear in Search results.
User-declared canonical
If your page explicitly declares a canonical URL, it will be shown here. If your folio is not a duplicate, None is fine hither. If your page is 1 of a set of similar or indistinguishable pages, nosotros recommend explicitly declaring the canonical URL. You tin can declare a canonical URL in several means: a <link rel="canonical"> tag, an HTTP header, a sitemap, or a few other methods. There is no guarantee that Google volition choose this URL, merely we will accept this into consideration. For AMP pages, the canonical should be the not-AMP version (unless it is a self-approved AMP).

Which index coverage issues are tested in the alive examination

The alive test can't discover all folio conditions, or predict indexing success with 100% confidence. This is because some types of issues are non, or cannot be tested in existent time, such as approved pick or whether a URL was submitted in a sitemap. If a status is not checked, the live exam result might be URL is bachelor to Google, when in fact indexing volition fail due to the condition not tested in the live test.

Here are a list of indexing bug from the Alphabetize Coverage written report, and whether they tin be tested in the live test:

Additional response data (live test)

Additional fetch information is only available in the live test with a status of URL is available to Google.

To see additional response data such as a screenshot of the rendered page, the raw HTML returned, the HTTP headers, JavaScript console output, and whatever page resources loaded, click View tested folio.

View the rendered page

You tin can view a screenshot of the rendered page equally Googlebot sees it. This is useful for confirming that all elements of the page are nowadays and announced as yous intend. Differences might exist the effect of resource that are blocked to Googlebot.

A screenshot is available only for the alive URL examination with a successful exam effect. Screenshots are not available for the indexed URL, or for not-successful fetches of the live test. The page must be reachable to generate a screenshot. If your page is behind a firewall, you can expose it to the URL Inspection tool using a tunnel.

To view the rendered page:

  1. Inspect the homepage of your site.
  2. Click Test live URL on the alphabetize results page.
  3. Click View tested page on the page verdict bill of fare to open boosted data panels. If this option is not available it is typically because the page cannot exist reached for the live examination.
  4. Click the Screenshot tab.

Asking (re)indexing

You can request that an inspected URL exist indexed by Google. Indexing can accept up to a week or two; you lot can check the progress using this tool.

Some caveats when requesting indexing:

  • Indexing typically takes only a day or so, but tin can take much longer in some cases.
  • Submitting a request does not guarantee that the page will appear in the Google Index.
  • At that place is a daily limit to how many index requests you lot can submit. If you lot desire many pages indexed, try submitting a sitemap to Google.

To request indexing for a URL:

  1. Audit the page URL.
  2. Click Request indexing on the inspection event folio for the URL. If the page passes a quick check to test for immediate indexing errors, information technology will exist submitted to the indexing queue. You cannot request indexing if the folio is considered to exist non-indexable in the live test.

To request indexing of many new or updated pages, your best choice is to submit a sitemap, with the updated pages marked past <lastmod>.

Troubleshoot a missing page

If you think your page hasn't been indexed, hither'south how to verify and troubleshoot the issue.

  1. Cheque the alphabetize status of the page. Inspect the URL, either by inbound the URL in the inspection URL textbox, or by clicking the audit push shown next to a URL in ane of the other Search Console reports (you might need to hover over a URL to see this push button).
  2. The initial test results show you Google'south information about the URL in the Google index. These Google alphabetize results are used to generate search results. Notation: This initial page is not a live test of the URL. Live testing is covered later.
    • If the URL status starts with "URL is on Google", then the page should be bachelor in Google Search. Yous can verify this past searching for the URL in Google. If the page isn't in search results:
      • Cheque the Manual Deportment written report and Security Problems report for issues affecting that page. Issues on either written report tin can prevent your page from actualization in search results.
      • Bank check to run across if someone has temporarily blocked the page.
      • If none of the previous issues affect the page, continue debugging the consequence as described here.
    • If the URL condition is URL is not bachelor to Google, then expand the Availability section.
      1. The Availability department header should include a label describing in brief why the URL could not be indexed. Encounter the list of values and possible fix instructions. If the label is URL is unknown to Google, it means that Google hasn't seen that URL before, so you should asking that the page be indexed. Indexing typically takes a few days.
      2. If Clamber allowed? is "No," that means Google tin can't clamber the folio because of a robots.txt rule, which prevents Google from itch the folio. Read how to test and set up this upshot.
      3. If Indexing allowed? is "No", that means your site is returning a "noindex" tag or header that prevents Google from indexing the page, which enables information technology to appear in Google Search results. You lot'll accept to remove this tag or header from the folio before Google will index it.
  3. If you've changed the folio since the clamber time listed, you can test your electric current version of the folio past clicking Examination live URL. If the status shown at the elevation of the page valid, and so the page can probably exist indexed (note that non all indexing bug can be detected by the alive exam).

Known issues

  • In a few cases, we don't report the sitemap for a page that was submitted in a sitemap. We are working to fix this.

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