On rare occasions, there might be an event in Search Console that could affect your report data. For example, if we change our data aggregation methods or there is a logging error, you might see a dip or bump in your chart. This page records known issues in the last 3-16 months that might affect your data.
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2024
May 15 - 27 (Search results)
A logging error affected Search Console reporting on product snippets from May 15, 2024 until May 27, 2024. As a result, you may notice an increase in clicks and impressions during this period for the Product snippet search appearance type in the performance report and impressions overlay in the product snippet rich result report. This is just a logging issue, not an actual change in clicks or impressions.
March 28 - April 2 (Search results)
A logging error prevented Search Console from reporting on AMP pages and Web Stories in Google Images from March 28, 2024 until April 2, 2024. As a result, you may notice a decrease in clicks and impressions during this period for AMP pages and Web Stories in the Search Console Performance report. This is just a logging issue, not an actual change in clicks or impressions.
March 26
A logging error prevented Search Console from reporting on Web Stories in Google Images from August 28, 2023 until March 26, 2024. As a result, you may notice a decrease in clicks and impressions during this period for your Web Stories in the Search Console Performance report. This has been resolved and you may start to notice an increase in clicks and impressions, as the data returns to Search Console. This did not reflect a change in actual clicks or impressions, only an issue with data logging.
March 4 onward (Search results)
Google Search has changed the way event rich results appear in Search results. As a result, you may see a drop in clicks and impressions for your event search appearance reported metrics in your performance report. This doesn’t indicate a real drop in traffic, only in the way we categorize it in Search Console.
January 9 (Search results)
Search Console has changed the way it evaluates and counts impressions and clicks for job listing and detail pages. As a result, you may see an increase in clicks and impressions for your job pages. This increase doesn't reflect actual growth, but rather that Search Console is more accurately reporting the number of impressions and clicks across the various job experiences in Search.
2023
November 30
Google Search is now only showing pages in Video mode where the video is the main content of the page. You can expect to see a decrease in the number of pages with indexed videos. This decrease will appear in the number of video impressions in the performance report, video indexing report, and the video rich results report in Search Console. Read more in our blog post.
September 13
Google Search is no longer showing How-to rich results on desktop devices. As a result, you will see the number of reported impressions for How-to drop. Read more in the blog post.
August 28
A logging error caused Search Console to no longer report on Web Stories in Google Images from August 28, 2023 until March 26, 2024. This did not reflect a change in actual clicks or impressions, only an issue with data logging.
August 8
Google Search is showing HowTo and FAQ rich results types less frequently. FAQ rich results will only be shown for a very limited number of sites. HowTo rich results will only be shown on desktop devices. As a result, you will see the number of reported impressions for these types drop. Read more in the blog post.
May 4-17
A bug in Google Search caused a drop in video traffic from May 4 to May 17, and has since been resolved.
April 13
Google now only shows video thumbnails next to Google Search results when the video is the main content of the page. You may see a change in search appearance reported metrics for videos in the performance report, video indexing report, and video rich results report. Read more about the change in the blog post.
April 5 onward
Google Search has started showing fewer FAQ rich results in Search. As a result, you may see a decrease in FAQ search appearance reported metrics in the performance report. This is an intentional change. Note that Google does not guarantee that your structured data will show up as rich results in Search results.
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2024
June 4
Impressions overlay in the Merchant listings rich report
You’ll see an increase in the number of impressions in the Merchant listings rich report. This is because Search Console is counting both image and web impressions for the Merchant listings rich report starting June 4. This is a just reporting change, not an actual increase in traffic.
May 15 - 27 (Product snippets)
A logging error affected Search Console reporting on product snippets from May 15, 2024 until May 27, 2024. As a result, you may notice an increase in clicks and impressions during this period for the Product snippet search appearance type in the performance report and impressions overlay in the product snippet rich result report. This is just a logging issue, not an actual change in clicks or impressions.
No recent issues
No recent issues