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Search Console patches a two-day Crawl Stats gap

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IN BRIEF

Barry Schwartz reported missing Crawl Stats data for 15 and 16 August and confirmed on 23 August that Google had patched the gap. The incident affected reporting rather than establishing a change in crawl behaviour.

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For you, this means avoiding the use of missing dates as evidence of an indexing problem and preserving the incident annotation in technical dashboards.

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Search Console patches a two-day Crawl Stats gap

Barry Schwartz reported missing Crawl Stats data for 15 and 16 August and confirmed on 23 August that Google had patched the gap. The incident affected reporting rather than establishing a change in crawl behaviour. For you, this means avoiding the use of missing dates as evidence of an indexing problem and preserving the incident annotation in technical dashboards.

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