Google Search Console
Technical SEO · Free
About
Google's free tool showing how your site performs in Google Search, with indexing and error reports.
Key features
- Search performance reports
- Indexing coverage
- Core Web Vitals
- Sitemap submission
Best for
- — Monitoring search traffic
- — Fixing indexing issues
- Pricing
- Free
- Platforms
- Web, API
- Works with
- Google Analytics, Looker Studio
- Last checked
- 2026-10-29
- Status
- Listed, not yet tested
Our take
Essential and free. Data is sampled and limited to Google only.
Features and pricing change often — confirm on search.google.com before you commit.
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