Google Search Console is a free Google service that lets site owners monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot how their website appears in Google Search results.
Google Search Console is a free web service from 📝Google that lets website owners, SEO practitioners, and developers monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot how a site appears in Google Search. Introduced as Google Webmaster Tools and renamed Search Console in 2015, it requires a user to verify ownership of a property before its data becomes available.
Its Performance report shows the queries, pages, countries, and devices that generate impressions and clicks, along with click-through rate and average ranking position. The URL Inspection tool reports whether a specific page is indexed and how Google crawled and rendered it, and it can request indexing of new or updated pages. Further reports cover index coverage, sitemap submission, Core Web Vitals, structured data and rich-result eligibility, and any manual actions or security issues affecting the site, and the same data is available programmatically through the Search Console API.
Search Console measures a site from Google's side of the search relationship, complementing on-site web analytics that track what visitors do after they click through.