A dedicated page for Google's URL Inspection Tool
There's now a Google Inspection Tool page in the SEO section, showing exactly which of your URLs Google is inspecting, how often, and — crucially — how much of that "Inspection Tool" traffic is genuinely Google versus spoofed.
When someone uses the URL Inspection tool in Google Search Console ("Test live URL" or "Request indexing"), or calls the URL Inspection API, Google sends a request identifying itself as Google-InspectionTool. We already let you filter the SEO Overview by this crawler — now it has a page of its own under SEO → Google Inspection Tool.
The page shows, for whatever time period you've selected:
- Headline stats — total inspection requests, how many distinct URLs were inspected, and a daily average.
- Verified vs unverified split — every request is checked against Google's official IP ranges. Genuine inspections from Google show as verified; requests that claim to be the Inspection Tool but come from other IPs are flagged unverified, so you can see at a glance how much is real and how much is impersonation.
- Activity over time — verified and unverified inspections plotted across the period.
- Status codes — what the tool actually got back (2xx/3xx/4xx/5xx), so you can spot pages failing inspection.
- Most inspected URLs — the pages Google is checking most.
- Per-request log — every individual inspection with its timestamp, path, status, client IP and verification badge, filterable (verified only, unverified only, by status code, slowest) and exportable to CSV.
It's a quick way to confirm that the pages you care about are being re-checked after a change — and to catch bots that are masquerading as Google's inspector.