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Indexability checker

Paste a URL and we fetch it live, then run every technical signal Google uses to decide whether a page can be indexed — HTTP status, redirects, the X-Robots-Tag header, <meta robots>, the canonical, and robots.txt. One plain-English verdict, no sign-in.

Indexable vs. indexed

This tool checks indexability — whether anything technical is stopping Google. That is different from being indexed, which is Google's own decision after it crawls. To check whether a URL is already in Google's index, connect your Search Console and use the Google index checker, which reads the official URL Inspection API.

If a signal is red

A single noindex or a robots.txt disallow is enough to keep a page out of Google. Fix the blocker, then push a recrawl so Google re-evaluates fast — connect your own Search Console and submit the URL. Stuck on a specific Search Console error? See the indexing fixes.

FAQ

What is indexability?
Indexability is whether a page is technically allowed to enter a search engine's index. A page is indexable when nothing blocks it — it returns 200, isn't disallowed in robots.txt, has no noindex (in a meta robots tag or the X-Robots-Tag header), and points its canonical at itself rather than another URL.
What does this indexability checker test?
It fetches the URL live and runs every technical signal Google uses to decide if a page can be indexed: HTTP status, redirect chain, the X-Robots-Tag response header, the <meta robots> tag, the canonical link, and your robots.txt rules — then returns one plain-English verdict.
Is indexable the same as indexed?
No. Indexable means nothing technical is blocking the page. Indexed means Google has actually crawled it and chosen to keep it in the index. A page can be perfectly indexable and still not indexed yet — to check the live index status, connect Search Console and use the Google index checker.
A signal is red — what now?
Fix the specific blocker the verdict names (remove the noindex, narrow the robots.txt rule, correct the canonical, or resolve the redirect), redeploy, then request a recrawl so Google re-evaluates the page quickly.
Do I need to sign in?
No. The indexability check runs against any public URL with no account — connecting Search Console is only needed for the separate index-status check via the URL Inspection API.
Why does Google say my app or site is not indexable?
The usual culprits: the page is rendered entirely by JavaScript so the initial HTML is empty (common in single-page apps), it sits behind a login or interstitial, it returns a non-200 status, or a stray noindex / robots.txt rule blocks it. App-store links and deep links into native apps aren't web pages, so Google can't index them at all — you need a public web URL. Run the URL through this checker to see which signal is the blocker.
How do I check the X-Robots-Tag header?
This checker reads the X-Robots-Tag response header on every run — it's one of the signals in the verdict. To check it by hand, run curl -I https://example.com/page and look for an X-Robots-Tag line: 'noindex' there keeps the page out of Google even if the HTML has no meta robots tag.

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