This morning I’ve been noticing a lot of complaints about the Google Search Console Performance report being delayed and data not fully being represented. It seems to be a global issue and even John Mueller of Google confirmed there is an issue at the moment.
The issue is that the data seems to have stopped collecting on August 23rd and it looks like some sites saw huge declines in clicks and impressions on August 23rd. It is just a reporting glitch and hopefully Google will be able to backfill the data.
Google posted a notice on this page for August 23rd and 24th saying “An internal problem caused a data loss in Search and Discover performance during this period. Users might see a significant data drop in their performance reports during this period. This does not reflect any drop in clicks or impressions for your site, only missing data in Search Console.”
Here is what it looks like for some:
Here are some of the complaints on Twitter:
Does anyone see any drop in Google Search Console data on 23rd August? Wondering if this is an update or bug in GSC! Any idea? @searchliaison @dannysullivan @JohnMu @rustybrick @methode pic.twitter.com/FOOreyFzet
— Keval Bhuva (@bhuva47) August 25, 2021
Yeah the graph does look like its going down steeply but GSC still shows the message ‘fresh data-usually replaced with final data’ message for 23rd. Isnt that the case with you? pic.twitter.com/clAPcJXnFr
