Official statement
It is absolutely not the case that having more indexed pages means that Google considers your site better. For sites with 1,000 to 5,000 pages, Google views them all as small sites. The number of indexed pages is not a quality signal.
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TL;DR
Google states that the number of indexed pages is not an indicator of quality. For those managing small sites, there’s no need to be concerned about indexed pages as a performance criterion for SEO.
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