We put a new site online with no backlinks, no audience and no history. Sixteen pages, a sitemap, and a Google Search Console property connected the same afternoon. Then we recorded what Google said about every page, the first morning and the next.
That record is the only reason this article exists. Search Console answers the question for today and keeps nothing, so the day-one state of a site is normally gone by day two. Ours is not.
What happened in the first day
On the first afternoon, Google had not heard of any of it. Every page came back as unknown. By the next morning's check, thirteen of the sixteen were indexed.
What Google reported
