Knowledge base v2.13.0 · Community edition · data through 2 October 2026
Thing · Report
The Search Console report that lists which URLs are indexed and why the others are not.
Documented in
Google's Page indexing report help says a 'Discovered – currently not indexed' page was found but not crawled yet, typically because Google wanted to crawl it but expected the crawl to overload the site, so it rescheduled the crawl.
Google Search Console Help · Day 2 · Deciding what goes in the index?
Google's Page indexing report help says a 'Crawled – currently not indexed' page was crawled but not indexed, may or may not be indexed in the future, and does not need to be resubmitted for crawling.
Google Search Console Help · Day 2 · Deciding what goes in the index?
Slide and stage claims that name it, the ones Google’s documentation does not cover first.
Index selection drops a document carrying a noindex rule if it was not already dropped earlier in processing (noindex is a likely but not certain reading of the transcript, supported by the later mention of noindex among the Page indexing report reasons).
Search Console's Page indexing report is the place to check for index selection issues, and its not-indexed reasons are useful when testing changes on a site.
Search Console's page indexing report breaks down the reasons why pages do or do not show in Search, and its categories help find patterns in how a site's content is crawled and served to Google's crawlers.
Gary Illyes · Day 1 · How crawling errors affect Search
Google said soft 404s, like some other problem categories, are looked up in Search Console's page indexing report, while other crawl issues are debugged in the Crawl Stats report.
Gary Illyes · Day 1 · How crawling errors affect Search
Not-indexed reasons in the Page indexing report include pages excluded by a noindex rule and 'Alternate page with proper canonical tag'.
Kit items about Page indexing report: their own words name it, or several of the claims they rest on do.
Watch the Page indexing report and treat its not-indexed reasons as a work list
Rests on 10 claims, 5 of them naming Page indexing report; its own words name Page indexing report
Verify every production host in Search Console before launch
Rests on 1 claim, 0 of them naming Page indexing report; its own words name Page indexing report
Also inglossary terms Crawled – currently not indexed, Discovered – currently not indexed
Things named in the same claim, with the number of claims they share.