Indexing
Storing and organising a crawled page in a search engine's index so it becomes eligible to be retrieved and ranked for queries.
Crawling IndexingURL Inspection API
URL Inspection tool
A Search Console feature showing Google's indexed state for a URL plus a live test with rendered HTML, screenshot, and page resource loading results.
In full
The indexed view reports the canonical Google selected, the crawl date, the referring sitemap, and any structured data or enhancement status. The live test bypasses the index and renders the page on demand, exposing blocked resources and JavaScript errors. An API exists with a per-property daily quota, making bulk indexation auditing possible. Requesting indexing from the tool queues a URL but confers no priority guarantee.
Example
Live testing a template shows three JavaScript bundles blocked by robots.txt, explaining why the rendered HTML is empty.
Related terms
Canonicalization
The process by which a search engine groups duplicate or near-duplicate URLs into a cluster and picks one representative URL to index and…
JavaScript rendering
The execution of a page's client-side JavaScript by a search engine so that content and links generated at runtime become indexable.
Google Search Console
Google's free property-level reporting and diagnostics service covering search performance, indexing status, enhancements, manual actions…
Crawled — currently not indexed
A Search Console status meaning Google fetched a URL but chose not to index it, usually a quality, duplication or value judgement.