How long does Google take to index a new page?
You published a page and nothing happened. You do not know whether to wait, to change it, or to conclude it failed.
Three clocks, not one
Crawling can happen in hours. Indexing usually follows within days. Ranking settles over one to four months, because the engine has to observe how the page performs against alternatives before it trusts a position. Judging a page at two weeks is judging a process that has not run.
What you can do to shorten the first clock
Submit the URL in Search Console, list it in your sitemap, and link to it from a page that is already crawled regularly. Internal links from established pages are the most underused of these and cost nothing.
The exception that must not wait
A page that drops to zero suddenly is not settling, it is broken. Technical faults resolve on a different clock entirely, and treating one as the other loses months.
Indexing is fast, ranking is slow
A new page on a site Google already crawls is usually indexed within days, sometimes hours. That is not the wait people are actually describing. The wait is the months between being indexed and being ranked anywhere a human will see, and no amount of pinging, submitting or resubmitting compresses it, because it is not a queue, it is Google deciding whether you deserve the position.
What actually shortens the wait
Internal links from pages that are already crawled regularly, a sitemap that is accurate rather than exhaustive, and a page that answers something specific enough that there is a query to rank for. On this site, pages linked from the homepage and the tool pages were picked up in a fraction of the time taken by pages that sat in the sitemap with nothing pointing at them.
Measured, not asserted
This site's first month produced 31 clicks. Its eighth produced 16,410. Nothing in month one predicted month eight, and every decision that mattered was made before the data existed.
Free tool for this: Crawler View. No account, nothing uploaded.
Where this goes deeper
Every number on this page comes from one complete dataset: one product taken from zero to 100K+ users on search alone, with nothing spent on advertising. The full argument is Chapter 14 of the book. Five chapters are free to read.