index coverage
How many of a site pages an engine has actually indexed. Distinct from sitemap coverage, which is only what the site declares.
What index coverage does not show
The two are compared, never substituted.
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Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.
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Questions about index coverage
What is index coverage?
How many of a site pages an engine has actually indexed. Distinct from sitemap coverage, which is only what the site declares.
What does index coverage not show or guarantee?
Distinct from sitemap coverage, which is only what the site declares. The two are compared, never substituted.
Which area of the glossary does index coverage belong to?
Indexing and discovery: Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.
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