{"id":6833,"date":"2022-11-10T15:46:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T15:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/10\/google-search-console-reporting-bug-with-discover-performance-report\/"},"modified":"2022-11-10T15:46:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T15:46:40","slug":"google-search-console-reporting-bug-with-discover-performance-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/10\/google-search-console-reporting-bug-with-discover-performance-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Search Console reporting bug with Discover performance report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has posted about another data issue with the Search Console reports, this one impacted the Discover reporting in the performance report section on October 23, 2022. This was a data logging issue that only impacted reporting, the Google Discover results were not directly impacted by this reporting bug.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the issue. <\/strong>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/6211453?hl=en#zippy=%2Cperformance-reports-search-results-discover-google-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> there was a \u201clogging error\u201d on October 23, 2022 specific to tracking and logging the Discover performance metrics in Search Console.  As a result of this logging error, you may notice a drop in the Discover metrics on October 23rd.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discover not impacted. <\/strong>While there was a bug with the reporting, this did not impact or change any actual real traffic from Google or Google Discover. This is solely a reporting issue and not an actual performance issue in Google Search or Google Discover.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Google wrote. <\/strong>Google posted on October 23rd \u201cA logging error caused a drop in Discover data on this day. This did not reflect a change in actual traffic, only an issue with data logging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Removed an issue. <\/strong>Google also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-search-console-mess-34390.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seemed to remove<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-fixed-a-bug-with-some-search-features-that-may-impact-your-sites-visibility-389344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">search feature bug annotation<\/a>, it is unclear why the notation was removed but it has been removed from the list of data anomalies.  Google <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-search-console-mess-34390.html#:~:text=Update%3A%20John%20Mueller,to%20put%20it.%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">later told us<\/a> they removed that note because it is really not the place to document search feature bugs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why we care. <\/strong>If you notice a drop in your Search Console metrics for the Discover performance reports, you are not alone. This was a reporting issue only and did not actually impact your real traffic and impressions from Google Search or Google Discover.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-search-console-reporting-bug-with-discover-performance-report-389521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Search Console reporting bug with Discover performance report<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Search Engine Land<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has posted about another data issue with the Search Console reports, this one impacted the Discover reporting in the performance report section on October 23, 2022. This was a data logging issue that only impacted reporting, the Google Discover results were not directly impacted by this reporting bug. What was the issue. Google said there was a \u201clogging error\u201d on October 23, 2022 specific to tracking and logging the Discover performance metrics in Search Console. As a result of this logging error, you may notice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-seo-blogs"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}