Open Google Search Console for the verified property
Use URL Inspection on the page URL
Check the “Crawled as” and “Last crawl” details
Review the “Page indexing” report for the URL
Check the “Indexing allowed?” and “Google-selected canonical” details
Use the Search Console URL Inspection live test if needed
Search Google with `site:yourdomain.com/page-url`
Compare the first appearance date in Search Console performance data
Check server logs for the first Googlebot crawl of the page
Use the Internet Archive or cached snapshots to estimate first index timing
Use third-party SEO tools that record first index discovery dates