Google's Gary Illyes showed timing ranges for crawling, indexing, site moves, and core update recovery at Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe in Barcelona.

Google’s Gary Illyes showed timing ranges for common Search processes at Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe in Barcelona, from discovering a new URL to settling a site move. The ranges also cover changes made on a website, including title updates and canonical changes.

The figures come from a recap of the Oct. 2 session by John Campbell of ROAST, one of the event’s community speakers. The recap says each process had a fastest, typical, and slowest time, based on Google’s internal analysis. The slides don’t appear on Google’s Search Central events page as of publication.

Illyes warned that many of the processes are interconnected, as Campbell notes. A page must be crawled by Google before it can be indexed, so delays accumulate.

Campbell’s recap lists about 20 hours as the typical time for Google to discover a new URL and about 30 days to refresh one it already knows.

Typical vs. slowest timelines shared during Gary Illyes’ Search Central Live session.

Source: John Campbell / ROAST recap, Oct. 2, 2026. Reported from Gary Illyes’ session.
‘Typical’ is undefined; sample size and measurement period are not reported.

The recap defines end-to-end indexing as the point when “all the critical processes finish successfully.” It also notes that a small site move can be done in a few weeks.

Google’s site-move documentation mentions that for small to medium-sized websites, most pages typically take a few weeks to move, while larger sites need more time.

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