Google Indexometer

Tracking Google’s indexing rate every month
November 2025 Indexing Rate:
70.0%
MoM change ( Oct → Nov )
-2.9 pp (3.98%)
Sample size
  • 20 000 domains
  • 250 000 URLs
Next update
15 December 2025

Methodology (summary)

  • Domains selected evenly from the Tranco list (top 1M websites).
  • ~50 URLs per domain sampled from sitemaps, mixing older and newer entries.
  • Each URL is tested to determine if it’s indexed; results are aggregated.
See the full methodology for details.

Why this matters

Indexing is the invisible backbone of search. If Google doesn’t index your pages, they can’t rank, no matter how well-optimized they are. Yet there’s been no public benchmark of how much of the web Google actually indexes.

The Indexometer changes that. Each month we sample a large set of pages across thousands of domains, and test whether Google has indexed them.

What is IndexCheckr?

While the Indexometer gives a global view of Google’s indexing rate, IndexCheckr is the tool that lets you monitor indexing for your own site or your backlinks.

  • Track the index status of all your pages in real time.
  • Schedule automatic rechecks and get email alerts when pages are indexed or de-indexed.
  • Export reports, use our API, and send non-indexed pages to indexing services.

Thousands of SEOs and site owners use IndexCheckr to make sure their content actually appears in Google search results.

Methodology (full)

  1. Domain selection. We select ~20 000 domains from the Tranco list, evenly distributed between rank 100 and rank 1 000 000 to cover large, mid-size, and long-tail sites.
  2. URL sampling. From each domain’s public XML sitemap(s), we collect ~50 URLs. When multiple sitemaps exist, we select from across the set (older and newer entries) to avoid recency bias. Non-HTML formats (e.g., PDFs, images, feeds) and obvious duplicates are excluded.
  3. Indexing check. Each sampled URL is tested once to determine whether it is currently indexed. We include URLs even if they return HTTP errors (e.g., 404/500) because such pages can still appear in Google’s index. Unlike the main IndexCheckr tool, which may use multiple checks for maximum accuracy, the Indexometer relies on a single check per URL for scalability. This may introduce a very small number of false negatives, making the rate slightly conservative.
  4. Aggregation. Results are combined across all sampled domains. The headline Indexometer figure is the percentage of tested URLs that are indexed.
  5. Repetition. The process repeats monthly with a fresh sample of domains and URLs. Over time this produces a timeline showing whether the indexing rate is rising, falling, or stable.
Notes & limitations: The sample is designed to be broadly representative across traffic levels and site types, but short-term swings can reflect sampling noise; multi-month trends are more reliable.

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