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Find out how many pages of a domain are indexed by Google

From: SISTRIX Team 24.09.2021 Google-Index, Google-Bot and the Crawling Process What is the Google Everflux? Robots meta tag vs. robots.txt: what are the main differences? What is an HTTP referrer? Our web site is no longer in the index - have we lost our rankings? What is a User-Agent? What is Google Search Console and How To Get Started Web Crawlers: How do They Work? Changing Google Search through Entities What is the X-Robots-Tag? What is the Mobile First Index? Rich Snippets: What are the advantages? Can the Google-Bot fill out and crawl forms? Crawl Budget: What does this mean? These are the CTR's For Various Types of Google Search Result Crawling and Indexing for extensive websites Google SERP Features: Result Types in the Search Results Why does the amount of indexed pages fluctuate so much? How can I quickly get a new page into Google's index? Why does a blocked, noindex URL show up in the search results? Is a website with and without the www harmful? Shelf space optimisation on Google Find out how many pages of a domain are indexed by Google The consequences of negative user-signals on Google's rankings Why am I getting different values for indexed pages in the Google search, the GSC and SISTRIX? How can I remove a URL on my website from the Google Index? Back to overviewGoogle provides two simple options to determine the number of indexed pages of your domain. One is publically accessible for all domains, the other is found in Search Console. Here’s how to use them both.ContentsContentsThe Google site queryUsing the Google Search ConsoleIndexed Pages on the Bing Search Console

The Google site query

By using a simple browser search query with the so-called “site:” operator and your domain, you can get an approximate number of pages indexed by Google. In the Google search field or browser Chrome search bar, you would type in the following: site:www.my-domain.comThe result of the search request should look as follows: If there are many pages in the index, the result of the site: query can be filtered using different options:site:www.my-domain.com/subdirectory/
Only displays the indexed pages in the directory /subdirectory/site:www.my-domain.com Phrase of choice
Only displays those indexed pages which contain the phrase of your choicesite:www.my-domain.com inurl:phrase
Only displays those indexed pages which contain the word “phrase” in the URLsite:www.my-domain.com intitle:phrase
Only displays those indexed pages which contain the word “phrase” in the titlesite:www.my-domain.com filetype:pdf
Only displays those indexed files with the chosen filetype (other possible filetypes are: doc, pdf, ps, xls, rtf, swf etc.) The site: query figures should only be taken as an indicator and it’s possible that search from different places, at different times, can yield very different results.

Using the Google Search Console

You can easily get an overview of the indexed pages for your domain within the Google Search Console. Analysing the indexing status of your website with the Google Search Console as follows:Log into the Google Search Console and select the desired websiteClick on “Coverage” in the left-hand navigation 12You are now shown the Coverage report. The total number of “Valid” pages 1 and 2 in the image above, are the total number of indexed pages.

Indexed Pages on the Bing Search Console

The search engine Bing also provide their own webmaster tools which also lets you evaluate the number of indexed pages on Bing. Under Search Performance it’s possible to see the history of Indexed pages: From: SISTRIX Team 24.09.2021 Google-Index, Google-Bot and the Crawling Process What is the Google Everflux? Robots meta tag vs. robots.txt: what are the main differences? What is an HTTP referrer? Our web site is no longer in the index - have we lost our rankings? What is a User-Agent? What is Google Search Console and How To Get Started Web Crawlers: How do They Work? Changing Google Search through Entities What is the X-Robots-Tag? What is the Mobile First Index? Rich Snippets: What are the advantages? Can the Google-Bot fill out and crawl forms? Crawl Budget: What does this mean? These are the CTR's For Various Types of Google Search Result Crawling and Indexing for extensive websites Google SERP Features: Result Types in the Search Results Why does the amount of indexed pages fluctuate so much? How can I quickly get a new page into Google's index? Why does a blocked, noindex URL show up in the search results? Is a website with and without the www harmful? Shelf space optimisation on Google Find out how many pages of a domain are indexed by Google The consequences of negative user-signals on Google's rankings Why am I getting different values for indexed pages in the Google search, the GSC and SISTRIX? How can I remove a URL on my website from the Google Index? Back to overview German English Spanish Italian French