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Indexability Checker: Can Google Index This Page?

Checks every signal that decides whether a page is allowed into the index — the status code, robots.txt access, meta robots, the X-Robots-Tag header, and the canonical.

Paste a full URL to check a specific page, or a bare domain to check the home page.

What "indexable" means here

This tool answers whether a page permits indexing, not whether Google has indexed it. Those are different questions, and only the first can be answered from the outside: whether Google actually indexed a URL is visible only in Search Console for a property you own.

The distinction matters because the two failures look identical from a search result. A page can be perfectly indexable and still absent from search because Google judged it not worth indexing — no external tool can distinguish that from a technical block.

The signals checked, in the order Google evaluates them

Read them in that order. A failure early on makes everything below it irrelevant, and it is the reason a disallowed URL cannot be deindexed with a noindex tag: the crawler never gets far enough to read one.

  • Status code — a non-200 response ends the question immediately.
  • robots.txt — if the path is disallowed, the page is never fetched and directives on it are never seen.
  • meta robots — a noindex in the HTML head, which requires a successful crawl to be read at all.
  • X-Robots-Tag — the same directive at header level, easy to miss because it is invisible in the HTML.
  • Canonical — a canonical pointing elsewhere asks Google to index the other URL instead.

When everything passes but the page is still missing

That combination is common, and it points away from configuration entirely. "Discovered — currently not indexed" is Google prioritising elsewhere, usually because the page is thin, near-duplicate, or weakly linked. Work through indexability debugging, then read the verdict itself in URL Inspection.

Can this tell me if my page is in Google?
No, and neither can any other external tool reliably. It tells you whether the page allows indexing. For whether Google indexed it, use URL Inspection on a property you own.
The page is indexable but not in search results. Why?
Indexability is permission, not merit. Google still decides whether a page is worth indexing, and thin or near-duplicate pages are routinely crawled and then skipped.

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