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Card class: Non-Hero • Category: Indexing & Coverage
The shape of your indexing health over 90 days. A clean step down means a deploy broke something on one day; a gentle slope means pages are decaying out of the index a few at a time.

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At a glance

Index Coverage Trend is a 90-day area chart of how many of your pages Google holds in its index over time. Where Indexed Pages gives the current count and fires the de-indexing alert, this card gives the shape, which is what tells a single-event regression from a slow structural decline. It is a trend view, not an alert.

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What it tracks

The card plots the indexed-page count from the Search Console Index → Pages (Coverage) data across a rolling 90-day window. Read the slope: a sharp single-day step down points at a deploy artefact (a robots.txt disallow, a site-wide noindex, a canonical or redirect regression) landing on that date, whereas a gradual downward drift points at content decay, thinning pages, or Google steadily dropping low-value URLs such as faceted-navigation parameters. A rising trend after a sitemap submission or a fix is the signal that recovery is under way. Pair it with Pages Not Indexed to see which exclusion reason is driving a fall, with Sitemap Status to rule out a discovery problem, and with Impressions Trend to confirm the downstream visibility impact. The real-time companion is the Index-Coverage-Drop Alert.

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Reconciling against the source

Rebuild this in Index → Pages: the chart at the top of that report trends the Indexed and Not-indexed counts over time, and the “Why pages aren’t indexed” table attributes any fall. Remember the Pages report updates on Google’s crawl-and-process cadence (it can trail a live change by days) and there is no public daily-series API for it, so reconcile on shape and on the reasons table rather than on an exact day-by-day figure.

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Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre

Index Coverage Trend is one of hundreds of KPI pulses Vortex IQ tracks across Google Search Console and 70+ other ecommerce connectors. Nerve Centre runs the detection layer; Vortex Mind investigates the cause when something moves; Ask Viq lets you interrogate any number in plain English. Start for free or book a demo to see this metric running on your own data.