Indexation tracking: sitemap × Google × crawl
Cartograph brings three sources together: your sitemap, Search Console (official inspections through the API, with Googlebot’s last pass) and your crawl. Page after page, it renders the indexation state, and highlights what does not add up: the URLs that Google knows or visits without the crawl having spotted them, checked directly on the site.
What is cross-checked
Three sources brought together page after page to render a reliable indexation state.
- Your sitemap, read in real time: announced URLs, files and errors.
- The official inspections obtained through the URL Inspection API, with the date of Googlebot’s last pass.
- The gaps between Google and the crawl: the pages visited by Google but absent from the crawl.
Published from Neuchâtel, built for Switzerland
Published from Neuchâtel by Thomas Nedjar, SEO Cartograph is aimed at Swiss freelancers and agencies. Pricing is in francs, and the crawl that cross-checks with Search Console runs on your machine: your data does not leave your workstation.
Indexation tracking is part of a whole
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A page that is not indexed by Google brings no organic traffic, whatever the quality of its content. SEO Cartograph’s indexation tracking brings your sitemap, the official Search Console inspections and your crawl together, page after page, to render the real state of each URL. In the example above, 348 URLs are submitted to the sitemap and 334 are indexed, with no error found.
Sitemap, Search Console and crawl brought together
The sitemap declares the pages you want to see indexed. Search Console, queried through the URL Inspection API, returns Google’s official indexation status and the date of Googlebot’s last pass. The crawl, for its part, describes what really exists on the site. By showing the three side by side, you spot the pages submitted but absent from the index, and you know where to put the effort.
The gap that really matters
A sitemap that declares hundreds of URLs says nothing about their real fate in the index. What matters is the cross-check between what the sitemap announces and what Search Console confirms it has indexed, URL by URL, rather than the total submitted. Two sites with the same number of pages can show a very different indexation rate depending on the quality of what the sitemap offers: a sitemap padded with weak or duplicate pages pulls this rate down, even if the starting count looks flattering. Tracking this cross-check, page after page, makes it possible to spot the URLs submitted but never retained by Google and to understand why: content too thin, a poorly set canonical, or simple crawl delay. It is this indexation tracking, built on the cross-check between sitemap and Search Console, that makes the real gap visible, where a simple count of submitted pages remains blind to what is really happening in the index.
The gaps between Google and the crawl
Some URLs are still visited by Google while the crawl no longer spots them. The addresses /llm.txt and /wp, for example, respond with 404 while keeping a Googlebot session. Cartograph reports them and checks them directly on the site, which lets you decide whether to redirect, restore or let Google lose interest in the page. To go further, see the SEO Cartograph dashboard, the technical audit or the GSC × GA4 dashboard.
- Sitemap, Search Console and crawl cross-checked page by page for reliable indexation tracking.
- The gap between submitted URLs and actually indexed URLs matters more than their count.
- Pages still visited by Google but absent from the crawl are flagged.
- Direct check on the site before redirecting, restoring or letting it be.