How to use the URL Inspection tool in Google Search Console

How to inspect a URL

Open Google Search Console and select the property the page belongs to.
Paste the page’s full URL, including https://, into the Inspect bar at the top.
Press Enter. The result shows what Google has stored for that URL.

The URL has to belong to the selected property. If Search Console says the URL isn’t in the property, switch to the right property, or check whether the page uses www or a different subdomain.

What the result means

URL Inspection statuses
Status	What it means
URL is on Google	The page is indexed and eligible to appear in search results. Eligible doesn’t guarantee it will rank or show for a given query.
URL is on Google, but has issues	Indexed, but something such as invalid structured data might keep enhancements like rich results from showing.
URL is not on Google	The page isn’t indexed and can’t appear in search results. Open Page indexing to see why.

Reading the Page indexing details

Expand Page indexing for the details behind the status. These fields answer most indexing questions:

Key Page indexing fields
Field	What to check
Discovery	Which sitemaps list the URL and which page linked to it. If both are empty, Google may have found it some other way, or not at all.
Last crawl	When Googlebot last fetched the page.
Crawl allowed?	No means a robots.txt rule blocks the URL. Fix this first, or Google can’t see the page.
Page fetch	Whether Google got the page successfully, or hit an error such as a 404 or a server error.
Indexing allowed?	No means the page has a noindex meta tag or an X-Robots-Tag header.
User-declared canonical	The canonical URL your page points to.
Google-selected canonical	The URL Google actually chose. If it differs from yours, Google treats your page as a duplicate of that URL.

The default result describes the version Google indexed, which may be days or weeks old. After you fix something, choose Test live URL to check the page as it is right now. You can switch between Google Index and Live Test at the top of the result.

The live test checks whether the page could be indexed: it’s reachable, crawl is allowed and there’s no noindex.
View tested page shows the rendered HTML, a screenshot, the HTTP response and resources that failed to load.
The live test can’t tell you which canonical Google will choose, or guarantee the page gets indexed.

Requesting indexing

Choose Request indexing to ask Google to crawl the URL. Google first runs a live test, then queues the page. You need to be an owner or full user of the property.

There’s a quota on individual requests, and repeating a request doesn’t speed things up.
Use it after publishing an important page or fixing an issue. For many pages, submit a sitemap instead.
Crawling can take from a few days to a few weeks, and a request doesn’t guarantee indexing.

Inspecting many URLs

The Search Console interface inspects one URL at a time. The URL Inspection API returns the same indexed data for apps and scripts, with a per-site quota of 2,000 calls per day and 600 per minute. It reports the indexed state only: it can’t run a live test or request indexing.

HyperGSC uses that API so your AI assistant can inspect URLs for you. Free accounts get 10 inspections a day, and paid plans add batch inspection.

Inspection prompt

Use HyperGSC to inspect these URLs: [paste URLs]. For each one, report whether it is indexed, the last crawl date, robots and indexing status, and whether Google’s selected canonical matches mine.

Sources and further reading

References checked on Oct 19, 2026.