Google Search Console Page Indexing Report Stuck: What You Need to Know

You may have noticed something annoying if you have recently checked your Google Search Console: the page indexing report hasn’t been updated in more than two weeks. As of early December 2025, data from November 17 is displayed in Google’s Index Coverage report; it appears as though someone neglected to hit the refresh button.

The Real Issue: It’s Just a Reporting Glitch

The good news is that you shouldn’t spend your nights worrying about this kind of issue. Google affirmed that the only reason for this delay is a reporting problem. Your actual indexing, crawling, and ranking aren’t affected one bit. The data in the page indexing report might be stale, but your pages are being indexed just fine behind the scenes.

While Google Search Console does experience occasional reporting delays, it’s happened before and it will happen again, two weeks is definitely longer than normal. Still, it’s worth noting that this is 100% a Google problem, not something you or your website did wrong.

What Google Says About the Delay

John Mueller from Google didn’t stay silent about this. On Bluesky, he acknowledged the issue directly, saying: “Sorry! Looking at our data, the index coverage data is older than what we’d consider normal.” He also clarified that “this is usually just reporting, and not related to actual indexing.”

When asked about when things would return to normal, Mueller admitted he didn’t have a specific timeline. He said, “I don’t have any information on when it’ll catch back up for now, but I’ll update here as I hear more.”

The situation got more official a few hours later when Google posted an announcement on LinkedIn with their formal statement:

“FYI – Page indexing report delays. We’re currently experiencing longer than usual delays in the Search Console Index Coverage report. This only affects reporting, not crawling, indexing, or ranking of websites. We’ll update here once this issue is resolved. Thanks for your patience!”

The key takeaway from this LinkedIn update? It hits all the important points: yes, there’s a delay, yes, it’s only affecting the reports you see, and no, it’s not impacting how your pages get indexed or ranked.

The Frustration for SEO Professionals

If you are one of those SEOs who submitted page fixes to Google and has been anxiously waiting to see the page indexing report confirm that Google noticed your changes, well, you’re out of luck for now. You’ll have to wait until this reporting delay is resolved before you can verify whether Google has recognized your improvements. It’s annoying, but it’s temporary.

When Will It Be Fixed?

Based on Google’s communication and the timeline of the issue, most people expect the page indexing report to catch up within the week. It’s not like this is a permanent problem, it’s just a technical hiccup on Google’s infrastructure.

What You Should Do Right Now

Don’t panic about your indexing. Keep doing what you’re doing with your SEO work. Submit your sitemaps, fix your issues, and optimize your content. The indexing process continues normally even if you can’t see the real-time data in Search Console. Once the reporting delay clears up, you’ll see all the data refresh, and everything will be back to normal.

This is one of those situations where patience is your best tool. Google knows about it, they’re working on it, and they’re keeping us informed through both Bluesky and LinkedIn about what’s happening.