Google Search Console performance reports delays fixed

Google Search Console seems to have fixed the weeks long delay with the search performance reports. For the past few weeks, we had 50+ hour delays for these reports, but as of the past several hours, the reports seem to be up-to-date.

Now up-to-date. If you go to the search performance report, you should just see anywhere between about 2 – 6 hours of delay, which is typically normal. At some point over the past few weeks, the delays were over 70 hours.

This is what I see:

The delays started a few weeks ago and it took about three weeks to clear the delay and backlog of data.

Page indexing report. Meanwhile, the page indexing report delay we reported many weeks ago, is still delayed. It is now almost a full month delayed and Google has not fixed it yet. Google did post a notice at the top of the report that reads:

“Due to internal issues, this report has not been updated to reflect recent data”

Why we care. If you use Search Console reporting for your analytics and reporting for your stakeholders and clients, this can be super frustrating. It does seem like the performance reports are now flowing data normally. But that indexing report is still very delayed and will cause headaches with reporting.

Meanwhile, Google released a number of new features in the past few weeks including:

• AI-powered configuration for the search performance report
• Social channels in the insights report
• Weekly and monthly smoothing in the performance report

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