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If you still use AMP on your site, then go to the AMP enhancements report in Google Search Console and filter by "crawl issues." You may see a spike in the number of crawl issues reported on and going forward from May 12th.
Lino Urunuela first reported this on Twitter last week and I was hoping it would be resolved by this week, but it does not seem to be. Here is what I see for some Search Console profiles I have access to:
Here are more screenshots from Lino Urunuela:
I'm noticing a rise in 'Crawl issue' errors for AMP, completely unrelated domains, so I believe it's some issue with Google Search Console.
— Lino Uruñuela (@Errioxa) May 17, 2023
Is anyone else experiencing this?
cc: @JohnMu @danielwaisberg pic.twitter.com/kqCD3ovEPm
Many others are noticing the same issue. It is hard to know if this is a Google Search Console bug or something else. But I know a ton of people are noticing this issue and my guess, this is a bug with Search Console and that you don't need to take any action. If I am wrong, I will update this story.
John Mueller of Google actually responded, saying, "Interesting, I'll look around. Thanks!"
John added after I posted this, on Mastodon, "The crawl error numbers there are super-low, so while the graph looks "scary" (jumps up!) the absolute numbers are pretty insignificant. (at least all of the ones I checked). Still curious though."
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Update: May 26th, John Mueller of Google now says the fix should be out soon:
Thanks, Lino! I checked with the AMP team - they were already looking into this and have resolved the issue, and the fix should be visible in the next days. It was affecting a very small part of AMP pages. Any remaining crawl issues for these pages should recover naturally.
— John Mueller (official) · #StaplerLife (@JohnMu) May 26, 2023
