Indexability Checker
Can Google index this page? One answer, from every place that decides it: status, redirects, robots.txt, noindex and canonical.
No sign-up. We read the live page for you. Nothing is stored.
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What you get
- Yes, no, or “not this URL”, in one line
- The single reason that decides it
- robots.txt and noindex, read as Googlebot reads them
- Where the canonical sends Google
- The HTTP status and every redirect, since only a page that answers 200 is indexed, and a redirect hands indexing to its destination.
- robots.txt on the final host, tested for Googlebot with the same precedence Google applies, naming the rule that decides it.
- noindex in the robots meta tag, the googlebot meta tag and the X-Robots-Tag header, including headers scoped to Googlebot.
- The canonical, and whether the page reads like an error page served with a 200, which Google treats as a soft 404.
How to use the Indexability Checker
Enter the page URL
Enter it the way people reach it, http or https. We follow the redirects and check the page they land on.
Read the verdict
Yes means nothing blocks Google. No names the blocker. “Not this URL” means Google will index a different one.
Fix the blocker, then confirm
Remove the rule or tag that blocks it, then ask Google to recrawl with URL Inspection in Search Console.
Why a page that loads can still be invisible to Google
Five places can say no.
The status code, a redirect, robots.txt, a noindex in the HTML and a noindex in the response headers. Each lives somewhere different, and any one is enough.
Headers are invisible.
An X-Robots-Tag: noindex header never appears in the page source, so a page can look perfect and still be excluded.
Blocked pages hide their noindex.
If robots.txt blocks a page, Google never sees its noindex, and can still list the bare URL from links. To remove a page, allow crawling and keep the noindex.
Canonicals redirect the credit.
A canonical pointing elsewhere asks Google to index that URL instead, which is right for duplicates and wrong for the page you want to rank.
What to do with the result
Indexability is a chain, and it breaks at its weakest link: a staging noindex that shipped, a robots.txt rule written for another path, a header added by a CDN. Checking a page answers “why is this one missing”. Site Audit checks indexability on every page it crawls, so the next template or plugin change that hides pages is caught before the traffic drops.
Site AuditFrequently asked questions
That nothing stops Google adding the page to its index: it loads, robots.txt lets Googlebot crawl it, nothing marks it noindex, and its canonical does not point elsewhere. Whether Google actually indexes it is then a quality decision.
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Open Graph Checker
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See where you actually stand.
A free tool checks one thing once. Veritas watches all of it, continuously, across every engine that decides whether you get cited.
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