What data can you get from the Google Search Console?
By GEO Search Console Published
The data you can get from the Google Search Console comes in two kinds: performance data (queries, pages, clicks, impressions, click-through rate and position) and status data (indexing, sitemaps, Core Web Vitals, structured data, links, manual actions and security issues).
How much of it you can take out depends on the route you use. This page is part of our Google Search Console FAQ.
The data you can get from each Search Console report
Each Search Console report gives you its own slice of data:
| Report | What you get | Export |
|---|---|---|
| Performance | Queries, pages, countries, devices, search appearance and dates, with clicks, impressions, CTR and position | Up to 1,000 rows from the interface |
| Page indexing | Indexed and not indexed pages, with the reason for each | Example pages per reason |
| Links | Top linked pages, top linking sites and top anchor text | Yes |
| Core Web Vitals | Page groups rated good, needs improvement or poor, from real Chrome users | Yes |
| Sitemaps | Each sitemap you submitted and the pages Google found in it | Status only |
Three ways to get Search Console data out
Search Console data comes out three ways, and Google's deep dive on performance data gives the limits of each:
- The interface: the Export button gives up to 1,000 rows as a Google Sheet, Excel or CSV file.
- The Search Console API: up to 50,000 rows per day per site per search type, 25,000 at a time.
- The bulk data export: every row, sent to Google BigQuery each day, with no row limit.
The interface is enough for a small site. Past a few hundred pages, the 1,000-row cap hides most of the long tail, and the API or BigQuery is the only way to see it.
The data Search Console never gives you
Search Console does not give you the searches that only a few dozen people made over two to three months.
Google anonymizes them, so they count in the chart totals but never appear as rows. It also stops at 16 months: older days are gone unless you saved them, which is what our Search Console data warehouse does.
It never names the people who searched, either. Our page on whether Search Console collects personal data explains what Google keeps.
References
- A deep dive into Search Console performance data filtering and limits, Google Search Central Blog, 2022. developers.google.com/
search/ blog/ 2022/ 10/ performance-data-deep-dive - Export Search Console data using the Search Console API, Search Console Help. support.google.com/
webmasters/ answer/ 12919192 - Start a new bulk data export, Search Console Help.
- Performance report (Search results): Overview and basic setup, Search Console Help.