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URL Inspection: check one URL or a whole batch in Google's index
Ask Google whether a page is indexed, why not, when it was last crawled and which canonical it chose, for one URL or up to 500 at a time.
URL Inspection tells you what Google's index holds for a specific address: whether the page is indexed, the coverage state behind that verdict, when Googlebot last fetched it and which canonical Google picked. AutoPSEO sends each request to Google's URL Inspection API, stores every answer, and lets you check a single URL or a batch of up to 500 in one run.
Inspect a single URL
- Open Indexing → URL Inspection and enter the address under Single URL Inspection.
- Press Inspect. The URL must belong to the property: on a domain property any subdomain counts; on a URL-prefix property the scheme, host and path prefix must match.
- Read the result. The badge (Indexed, Not indexed or Error) is AutoPSEO's summary; the lines below are Google's own fields.
| Field | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Verdict | PASS means the URL is in Google's index; NEUTRAL means it is excluded, often deliberately (a redirect, a noindex, a duplicate); FAIL means an error stopped it. |
| Coverage state | The reason in Google's words, such as "Submitted and indexed" or "Crawled - currently not indexed". |
| Robots.txt state, Indexing state, Page fetch state | Whether robots.txt allowed the crawl, whether a noindex applied, and whether Googlebot could fetch the page at all. |
| Last crawled, Crawled as | When Google last fetched the URL, and whether with its mobile or desktop crawler. |
| Google-selected canonical, Your canonical | When these differ, Google indexed another URL in place of this one. |
| Referring URLs, Sitemaps listing it | Where Google found the address. |
| Rich results, Detected rich results | Structured data Google recognised on the page. |
Open in Google Search Console jumps to the same inspection in Search Console, where you can run a live test or request indexing.
Inspect a batch of URLs
Under Bulk URL Inspection, choose a source:
- File Upload: a TXT or CSV file, one URL per line or a column named
url. - Paste URLs: one per line.
- GSC Sitemaps: any sitemap registered for the property.
- Sitemap URL: any sitemap address. Sitemap index files are followed (up to 50 sitemap files) and gzipped sitemaps are read.
Press Start bulk inspection. A run covers up to 500 URLs, sent in batches of 25 with five requests in flight at once. A progress bar tracks it and Stop ends it after the current batch. The panel counts Inspected, Indexed, Not indexed and Errors, draws a coverage chart, and lists each URL with its status, coverage state, last crawl and whether the canonical matches; the table exports to CSV. URLs outside the property are skipped and reported. A prepared run stays available for three hours.
You can also start a bulk run from the Sitemaps page with Inspect all URLs.
The daily quota
Google allows 2,000 inspections per property per day and 600 per minute (Search Console API usage limits). AutoPSEO counts every inspection, whether single, bulk or from the Index Tracker, against one counter shown as API calls today, and starts a new count at midnight Pacific time. When the counter reaches 2,000, AutoPSEO stops before sending more. If Google reports its quota exhausted first, the run stops and the remaining URLs are left uninspected rather than marked as errors.
As a rule of thumb, one full bulk run uses a quarter of the day's allowance, and the Index Tracker's daily scan uses up to 200 per property while always leaving at least 100 for you.
Full access
AutoPSEO connects to Search Console read-only by default. Inspection, like submitting sitemaps, asks for Search Console's full permission: if the page shows Your Google connection is read-only, press Enable full access for that Google account (connecting Search Console). Nothing on your site or in Search Console is changed by an inspection. If Google answers with a permission error, check that the connected Google account still has access to the property in Search Console.
What an inspection cannot do
The API reports the version of the page in Google's index; it cannot test the live URL and has no way to request indexing. For either, use Search Console's own URL Inspection tool. Requesting indexing is subject to a daily limit there, and Google notes that a request does not guarantee the page will be indexed. See how to request indexing.
Inspection history
Every result is stored. Inspection history lists the property's recent checks from all sources with a Details view, and a single inspection shows the earlier checks of the same URL beneath the result. When a URL that was indexed at its previous check comes back not indexed, AutoPSEO warns you straight away and records the change, which an Index flip alert can send to Slack, Teams or a webhook (alerts).
Related: Index Tracker, Crawled - currently not indexed.