Google working on fixing Search Analytics bug In the Search Console

By Barry Schwartz

Published: April 4, 2016 at 8:42 am

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Over the weekend, the Google Search Console suffered another bug — this one with the Search Analytics report missing a day of data on March 28.

Many webmasters voiced their concerns over social media on the weekend, but don’t worry, it is a widespread bug and doesn’t impact your rankings or your indexing with Google.

John Mueller, a Google webmaster trends analysts, said on Twitter that the data will be back soon. He said “Yes, it will be back soon.”

How soon is unknown, but if your clients complain to you, just tell them it is a bug that Google is working on fixing.

Here is what your chart may look like now:

Postscript: As of 2pm EDT, the report seems to be fixed.

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About the author

Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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