Google Search Console
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Due to API limitation, Google Search Console does not return data for the last two days, meaning no data will be retrieved for Date Ranges, which focus on the period of the last two days. If ‘Today’ and ‘Yesterday’ Date Ranges are selected, no data will be displayed in Databox. For longer Date Ranges that include the last two days (e.g. ‘Week to Date’, ‘Month to Date’), the data for the last two days will not be included. This limitation applies to all Google Search Console metrics.

Due to technical limitations, the Date Range ‘All Time’ will return a maximum of 36 months of historical data. The limitation is associated with the date when a Google Search Console metric is first used in Databox – Databox can display data for dates up to 36 months prior to that initial usage date.

A number of metrics for the Google Search Console integration are Non-Aggregatable. This means that due to the nature of these metrics, summing daily/weekly/monthly values will not give correct results for longer time periods.

These metrics are:

• CTR
• CTR by Queries
• CTR by Pages
• CTR by Countries
• CTR by Devices
• CTR by Search Types
• Position
• Position by Queries
• Position by Pages
• Position by Countries
• Position by Devices
• Position by Search Types

Due to API limitations, hourly granularity is not supported. This may affect how data is visualised on Charts in Databox.

For example, if a Google Search Console metric is used on a Line or Bar Chart with ‘Yesterday’ Date Range selected, hourly data will not be displayed on the Chart. However, the so-called Big Number above the Chart will accurately reflect the metric value for the selected Date Range.

Learn more about Granularity here.

When comparing data from Google Search Console to what’s shown in Databox, it’s important to make sure you’re referencing the same property that was connected to Databox.

In Google Search Console, you can have multiple properties – for example, different websites or different versions of the same website. This includes:

• Domain properties, which aggregate data across all subdomains and protocols (e.g., http://, https://, www, and non-www)

• URL-prefix properties, which only track data for a specific version of your site (e.g., https://yourdomain.com)

If your site is set up with multiple GSC properties like these, discrepancies can occur if the property connected to Databox doesn’t match the one you’re using for comparison.

To avoid mismatched data, double-check which Google Seach Console property is connected in Databox and ensure you’re comparing data from that exact property in Databox.

When creating Custom Metrics for Google Search Console, there is an option to select a Search Type.
Four different Search Types are available:

• Image search results
• News search results
• Video search results
• Web search results

This field is optional in the Metric Builder, but if it is left blank, the data displayed will be using Web Search Type by default.

Google Search Console metrics from Coverage and Enhancements Reports are not available via the Google Search Console API, therefore we can not retrieve data from these reports.

For any Basic metric of the Google Search Console integration, only the first 10,000 results will be returned via the API, which might not cover all the data that is available in the Google Search Console Data Source.
As a workaround, data can be displayed with shorter Date Ranges or Custom metrics can be built using the Metric Builder, where results for a metric can be filtered by specific dimensions.