: How to get precise indexed page number from a certain domain or a certain site? When conducting competitor analysis, we use "site" command to get the indexed page number from a certain domain

@Rivera981

Are you talking about site:www.sample.com vs site:a.sample.com OR site:sample.com vs site:a.sample.com

Google usually shows all subdomains when you do site:sample.com including results from a.sample.com but if you do site:www.sample.com (where www is a subdomain), it shows only results from sample.com.
Even in case of site:sample.com vs site:a.sample.com, the results count may vary a lot because site: is not a reliable source of getting true number of indexed pages. I personally have seen large differences in indexed pages when comparing site: to webmasters count.


Are there any other better solutions to get correct(or precise)
indexed page number from a certain domain or a certain site?


Google webmasters is precise but that's for websites you own. Also, how comparing 'count of indexed pages' of competitors is helpful to you? It's just a number indicating indexed pages with no bearing on ranking. Probably, the only helpful inference you can draw from it is how deeply google is indexing your competitor's website and I believe site: may be good enough indicator of that.

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