Index coverage refers to the Google Search Console report showing exactly which of a website’s URLs are indexed, excluded, or producing errors, providing a comprehensive, page-by-page view of a site’s overall indexing status.
Regularly reviewing index coverage helps catch unexpected exclusions early, such as pages accidentally blocked by robots.txt or carrying an unintended noindex directive, before they cause significant, prolonged traffic loss.
Index coverage reporting has evolved over time and is now often split across separate Pages and Sitemaps reports within Search Console, though the underlying purpose of monitoring indexing health remains the same.
Index coverage monitoring is a standard part of our Technical SEO service.