Indexation Rate Calculator

Above 95% is healthy and above 80% is normal, since a modest tail is expected on any site. Below 50% means most of the site is not earning anything, and it is worth finding out which half.

The page was fetched, assessed and rejected. It is a quality judgement — usually thin, duplicate or near-duplicate content — and no amount of resubmitting will change it.

The URL is known and has not been prioritised for crawling. That is a crawl capacity or internal linking problem, and unlike the previous one it is frequently fixed by structure rather than content.

The split tells you. Predominantly discovered-not-crawled points at crawl budget and linking; predominantly crawled-not-indexed points at content quality; predominantly excluded points at canonical, noindex or redirect rules you may or may not have intended.

Frequently. A sitemap listing pages that should never have been submitted — filtered views, thin tag pages, paginated duplicates — produces a low rate that reflects a sitemap problem rather than an indexing one.

Remove what should not be there, improve what is thin, and link to what is orphaned. Requesting indexing manually works for a handful of URLs and is not a strategy at any scale.

Compare submitted against indexed in the Search Console page indexing report. Comparing a site: search result against your page count is far less reliable, since that figure is an estimate rather than a count.

Only if what it lists deserves indexing. A sitemap padded with parameter URLs, thin tag pages and paginated duplicates lowers the rate and tells the search engine your judgement about your own site is poor.

Days for a well-linked page on an established site; weeks or never for a deep page on a new one. Persistent non-indexing after a month is a signal rather than a delay.

Manual requests work for a handful of URLs and are not a strategy. At any scale the levers are internal linking, content quality and removing what should not be submitted.

Large numbers of low-value pages in the index — filtered views, near-duplicates, thin archives. It dilutes site-level quality signals and consumes crawl, and consolidating them usually improves what remains.

Consolidated or improved more often than deleted. Where a page genuinely has no purpose, removing it with a redirect to the nearest useful page is better than leaving it or serving a 404.