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title: "Your indexed website content in Sitecore Search"
slug: "your-indexed-website-content-in-sitecore-search"
abstract: "Understand how your indexed website content is ingested by Sitecore Search and represented as index documents, entities, and attributes."
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# Your indexed website content in Sitecore Search

Before you can build search experiences, Sitecore Search needs to [index your website content](https://doc.sitecore.com/search/en/users/search-user-guide/index-items.html). After indexing is complete, you can view all your indexed, searchable content in Sitecore Search > **Content Collection**.

An indexed, searchable piece of content, such as a blog entry or a pair of shoes, is called an *index document*.

Every index document consists of *attributes*. Attributes are all the data that describes an index document. For example, index documents for blog entries might have attributes such as *name*, *author*, *publication*, and *publication date*. Index documents for shoes might have attributes such as *name*, *description*, *brand*, *price*, *image URL*, and *stock status*. You can view all attributes in Sitecore Search > **Administration** > **Domain Settings** > **Attributes**.

All index documents are grouped by *entity*. Depending on your implementation, index documents for blog entries might belong in the *Content* entity, and those for shoes might belong in the *Product* entity.

When you request content from Sitecore Search using [widgets](https://doc.sitecore.com/sdk/en/developers/005/cloud-sdk/cloud-sdk-concepts/concepts-search-experiences/search-concepts-for-cloud-sdk-developers/widgets.html "Widgets"), you request index documents that belong to a specific entity, and you can configure whether to request all or only some of the attributes of those documents.