Google Search Console - Indexed Pages
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I am performing a site audit and looking at the "Index Status Report" in GSC. This shows a total of 17 URLs have been indexed.
However when I look at the Sitemap report in GSC it shows 9,000 pages indexed. Also, when I perform a site: search on Google I get 24,000 results.
Can anyone help me to explain these anomalies?
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Yes, I've seen the same thing. I've got a client with a small site of only 6 pages. The sitemaps report shows all 6 have been indexed.
Then I look at the Index Status report and find 46 pages indexed. 46 pages indexed on a site with only 6 pages!!
So this seems to confirm your comments Logan.
The question I have is: how can I get a list of all the indexed pages?
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I'm seeing this same thing, within the same instance of GSC.
I believe the discrepancy between the Sitemap Report and Index Status Report is due to the Sitemap report being strictly based on the URLs submitted in your XML sitemap. The index status report seems to be more inclusive of URLs that don't exist in the XML sitemap - dynamically generated URLs, old 301'd URLs that haven't been dropped yet, paginated URLs, etc.
Regarding the discrepancy between the Index Status Report and the Site: command, I have no clue. I would expect those to be more similar, but I'm seeing similar differences to what you're seeing.
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My guess it's a http(s) and www/nonwww issue. e.g. you have the www version in GSC which contains a sitemap that has non-www urls and you force remove www on the actual web pages (so the non-www pages are indexed, but the www. version of the site you are looking at in GSC isn't)
Make sure all of these are consistent.
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