Indexing Speed of Internet Search Engines
Which search engine indexes a website's content the fastest? Current ranking: duckduckgo.com is the fastest.
- duckduckgo.com
- bing.com
- yahoo.com ( Takes over indexing from bing.com )
- google.com
- yandex.com
How do you check how fast a search engine is indexing a website? Solution: Simply enter the following command into the search engine: site:website-name.com
Now that I’ve finally put my websites back online after years, I’ve noticed that Google, in particular, rarely crawls the website’s URLs and indexes them very slowly—even though I’ve submitted a sitemap.xml. It’s been 8 months, and only a fraction of the URLs have been indexed. Fifteen years ago, I would check within hours to see if new URLs had already been indexed by Google, which was often the case. In 2018, I knew that all my URLs were being indexed, but it took weeks for them to appear in Google’s search results. Now, in 2026... months. Patience is recommended.
Even though the websites are not fully indexed, Google Gemini, Bing Copilot, and ChatGPT sometimes provide very good and interesting answers generated by AI (artificial intelligence). This shows that, although the websites are not fully indexed, the AI still has access to them—albeit not to the full content of my websites.
The ranking listed above also includes websites that I didn't launch until 2025. My oldest domain (shopping.com) dates back to 1997, but I no longer own it. My oldest domain today dates back to 2005.