Posted 3 hours ago3 hr comment_12375 Earlier this month, we reported that Google will be bringing Discover to the desktop version of Google’s home page. We don’t know exactly when that will roll out but Google has been testing it. Google Search Console has Discover performance reports that let you track how well your site is performing within Google Discover. And over the past day or so, there was a hack to see the Discover performance report broken out by desktop and mobile. But that hack was quietly disabled this morning. How it worked. Brodie Clark first spotted the hack and posted about it on LinkedIn, and then John Shehata shared some early data of mobile vs desktop Discover performance with this hack. The hack was to go to your Google Discover performance report in Google Search Console and then simply append [&metrics=CLICKS&compare_device=MOBILE&device=DESKTOP] to the end of the URL. It would then show you desktop vs mobile performance data, as John shared with chart: Early data. John shared some early data in his LinkedIn post, but keep in mind, this was a hack to get to the data and it is possible the hack was not 100% accurate and thus the data is not 100% accurate. John shared: Quick Findings (based on 9.6B impressions):• Google has been testing desktop Discover for 16+ months.• Desktop impressions spiked around July 30, 2024, and again in October 2024 before dropping.• No noticeable uptick in impressions since the recent public announcement.• GSC does not show desktop Discover traffic in 87+ of the 280+ listed countries.• Mobile CTR is significantly higher than desktop in most countries—almost double in the U.S.• In the U.S., desktop traffic is only ~4% of mobile. In most countries, it’s even less—except New Zealand (18%), possibly a test market? Desktop filters coming. This does suggest that Google Search Console will be adding a desktop filter to the Discover performance report some time in the future. Why we care. It would be great to be able to see how well your site is performing on Discover and break it down by mobile versus desktop. But at this point in time, it seems like the hack was disabled and there is currently no official filter to see the data broken down in this way. Also, Google has yet to officially launch Discover on desktop, so it all might be a bit premature. View the full article
