Google Indexing Stopped

[jeffreyjohnson]

Hello Team,

A month ago, Google was indexing more than 2,35,000 pages, now has reduced to 11K. I have cross-checked almost everything including content, backlinks and schemas. Everything is looking fine, except the server response time, being a heavy website, or may be due to server issues, the website has an average loading time of 4 secs.

Also, I would like to mention that I have been using same server since I have started working on the website, and as said above a month ago the indexing rate was more than 2.3 M, now reduced to 11K. nothing changed.

As I have tried my level best on doing research for the same, so please if you had any such experiences, do share your valuable solutions to this problem.

[Joe_Stoffel]

Hi Jeffrey,

Hard to draw conclusions without knowing the website. Is the site actually 2.3 million pages or did Google deindex a bunch of duplicate or thin content? I feel this could be what is happening.

Are you seeing a decrease in organic traffic and/or rankings since this happened or were these thin-content pages that were not generating any traffic?

An average load time of 4 seconds is likely not the issue. It's not ideal for UX (particularly on mobile) but I have seen Google fully index websites with higher average page load times than this. Were you getting these index numbers from Google Search Console or from performing a site search? ("site:")

If you want to DM me the site, I can take a closer look for you.

• Joe