The Moz Q&A Forum

    • Forum
    • Questions
    • My Q&A
    • Users
    • Ask the Community

    Welcome to the Q&A Forum

    Browse the forum for helpful insights and fresh discussions about all things SEO.

    1. SEO and Digital Marketing Q&A Forum
    2. Categories
    3. Intermediate & Advanced SEO
    4. How long after https migration that google shows in search console new sitemap being indexed?

    How long after https migration that google shows in search console new sitemap being indexed?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO
    6 3 621
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as question
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • lcourse
      lcourse last edited by

      We migrated 4 days ago to https and followed best practices..
      In search console now still 80% of our sitemaps appear as "pending" and among those sitemaps that were processed only less than 1% of submitted pages appear as indexed?

      Is this normal ?
      How long does it take for google to index pages from sitemap? 
      Before https migration nearly all our pages were indexed and I see in the crawler stats that google has crawled a number of pages each day after migration that corresponds to number of submitted pages in sitemap.

      Sitemap and crawler stats show no errors.

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • Cesare.Marchetti
        Cesare.Marchetti last edited by

        Its difficult to say. It depends on many factors like (importance of your site in Google's eyes, when they crawled your site the last time, relevance of the topic in general, etc.) BUT you can speed up the process a lot, i.e. initiate it on your own. You don't have to wait until Google recrawls your site at random. Did you know?

        Go to Search Console - Crawl - Fetch as Google - Add your site's URL or URL of a particular sub page. Press Fetch

        Google will recrawl that page again very quickly. When I do that with a particular page (not the entire domain) it usually takes 1-2 days at most to recrawl and index it again.

        Hope this helps.

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • lcourse
          lcourse last edited by

          Google has been crawling all our pages during the last days. I see it in the crawling stats.

          My concern is that

          1. majority of my sitemaps are still showing up as "pending" 3 days after I originally submited the sitemaps.
          2. those sitemaps that are processed show as indexed only less than 1% of my submitted pages.

          We do have around 170.000 pages in our sitemap.

          So I wonder wheher this is unusual or normal delay from google search console.

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • lcourse
            lcourse last edited by

            Update. now 10 days passed since our migration to https and upload of sitemap, still same situation.

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • StephanSolomonidis
              StephanSolomonidis last edited by

              Did the "pending" message go away in the end? Unfortunately you're fairly limited in what you can do with this. The message likely indicates/indicated that one of the following was true:

              1. Google had difficulty accessing the sitemap (though you did say no errors)
              2. It was taking a long time to do it because of the large number of links

              You could try splitting your sitemap up into several smaller ones, and using a sitemap index. Or have you done this already? By splitting it into several sitemaps, you can at least see whether some index and some don't, whether there do turn out to be issues with some of the URLs listed there, etc.

              You can also prioritise the most important pages by putting them into their own sitemap (linked to from the sitemap index, of course), and submitting that one first. So at least if everything else takes longer you'll get your most important landing pages indexed.

              lcourse 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
              • lcourse
                lcourse @StephanSolomonidis last edited by

                thanks Stephan.

                It took nearly a month for search console to display the majority of our pages in sitemap as indexed, even though pages showed up much earler in SERPs. We had it split down into 30 different sitemaps. Later we published also a sitemap index and saw a nice increase a few days later in indexed pages which may have been related.

                Finally google now is indexing 88% of our sitemap.
                Do you think in general that 88% is for a site of this size a somehow normal percentage or would you normally expect a higher percentage of indexed sitemap page and investigate deeper for potential pages that google may consider thin content? Navigation I can rule out as a reason.

                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • 1 / 1
                • First post
                  Last post
                • My url disappeared from Google but Search Console shows indexed. This url has been indexed for more than a year. Please help!
                  jacobmartinnn
                  jacobmartinnn
                  0
                  3
                  74

                • How long will old pages stay in Google's cache index. We have a new site that is two months old but we are seeing old pages even though we used 301 redirects.
                  DonnaDuncan
                  DonnaDuncan
                  0
                  3
                  81

                • Google Search Console indexes website for www but images for non www.
                  DonnaDuncan
                  DonnaDuncan
                  1
                  4
                  79

                • Is possible to submit a XML sitemap to Google without using Google Search Console?
                  GastonRiera
                  GastonRiera
                  0
                  7
                  1.4k

                • Client wants to remove mobile URLs from their sitemap to avoid indexing issues. However this will require SEVERAL billing hours. Is having both mobile/desktop URLs in a sitemap really that detrimental to search indexing?
                  RosemaryB
                  RosemaryB
                  0
                  7
                  89

                • To index search results or to not index search results?
                  IOSC
                  IOSC
                  0
                  2
                  53

                • How long does google take to show the results in SERP once the pages are indexed ?
                  Devanur-Rafi
                  Devanur-Rafi
                  0
                  11
                  4.5k

                • Previously ranking #1 in google, web page has 301 / url rewrite, indexed but now showing for keyword search?
                  Maximise
                  Maximise
                  0
                  7
                  607

                Get started with Moz Pro!

                Unlock the power of advanced SEO tools and data-driven insights.

                Start my free trial
                Products
                • Moz Pro
                • Moz Local
                • Moz API
                • Moz Data
                • STAT
                • Product Updates
                Moz Solutions
                • SMB Solutions
                • Agency Solutions
                • Enterprise Solutions
                • Digital Marketers
                Free SEO Tools
                • Domain Authority Checker
                • Link Explorer
                • Keyword Explorer
                • Competitive Research
                • Brand Authority Checker
                • Local Citation Checker
                • MozBar Extension
                • MozCast
                Resources
                • Blog
                • SEO Learning Center
                • Help Hub
                • Beginner's Guide to SEO
                • How-to Guides
                • Moz Academy
                • API Docs
                About Moz
                • About
                • Team
                • Careers
                • Contact
                Why Moz
                • Case Studies
                • Testimonials
                Get Involved
                • Become an Affiliate
                • MozCon
                • Webinars
                • Practical Marketer Series
                • MozPod
                Connect with us

                Contact the Help team

                Join our newsletter
                Moz logo
                © 2021 - 2026 SEOMoz, Inc., a Ziff Davis company. All rights reserved. Moz is a registered trademark of SEOMoz, Inc.
                • Accessibility
                • Terms of Use
                • Privacy