What it found on a real site

64%

of inspected pages unknown to Google

2,181

URLs asked about directly

7

pages one push from page one

Where those 2,181 pages stood

• Unknown to Google1,401 · 64%
• Indexed731 · 34%
• Excluded by noindex40 · 2%
• Crawled, not indexed8 · 0%
• Redirect1 · 0%

1. 1

   The sitemap said 6,534 pages

   A shop selling personalised songs, publishing in 5 languages. Search Console showed traffic to a handful of them. Nobody could say what the rest were doing, because Search Console's coverage report samples and does not list.

2. 2

   Every URL asked about directly

   2,181 URLs were put through Google's URL Inspection API at the 2,000-a-day limit, which is the only way to get Google's own answer for a specific page rather than an estimate.

3. 3

   64% came back unknown to Google

   1,401 pages were not in the index and had never been crawled: written, published, linked from the sitemap, invisible. Not penalised, not thin, simply never fetched.

4. 4

   The rest sorted itself into work

   1,407 coverage findings, 7 pages sitting just off page one with a query they already earn, and 3 pairs of pages competing with each other for the same query.

The same check runs on any sitemap without an account, and it is the first thing worth doing on a site you have not measured this way. Run it on yours.