> ## Documentation Index
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# Index Coverage Trend, Google Search Console

> Index Coverage Trend charts how the count of indexed pages moves over time, separating a one-off de-index from a slow indexing decline. How to read it, why it matters, and how to act on it.

**Card class:** [Non-Hero](/nerve-centre/overview#card-classes-explained)  •  **Category:** [Indexing & Coverage](/nerve-centre/connectors#connectors-by-type)

> 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.

## 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](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/google-search-console/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.

## 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](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/google-search-console/pages-not-indexed) to see which exclusion reason is driving a fall, with [Sitemap Status](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/google-search-console/sitemap-status) to rule out a discovery problem, and with [Impressions Trend](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/google-search-console/impressions-trend) to confirm the downstream visibility impact. The real-time companion is the [Index-Coverage-Drop Alert](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/google-search-console/index-coverage-drop-alert).

## 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.

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