Bug? Google Search Console Time Spent Downloading A Page Metric Drops.

Feb 23, 2018 - 7:19 am 3 by

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If you login to your Google Search Console account, click on the "Crawl Stats" section under the "Crawl" drop down, you will see the last report that shows time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds) shows a huge drop in the metric.

In the chart below, you can see the average is around 200 milliseconds but then it dropped down to about 75 milliseconds. Here is a screenshot:

Time Spent Downloading A Page Metric Drops

Numerous people are reporting this and John Mueller from Google responded on Twitter that he will look into it. Here are some of those complaints:

The good news is that you are not alone, it seems to be impacting everyone. Here is how John has responded thus far:

I assume it is just one of those many reporting glitches in the Google Search Console.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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