If you saw a massive dip in your “time spent downloading a page” report in Google Search Console, you are not alone.
Google has confirmed that there is indeed a bug that affected and “time spent downloading a page” stats on both the 20th and 21st Feb.
Google’s webmaster trends analyst (cool title), John Mueller confirmed this on Twitter:
If you’re seeing a weird drop in the Crawl Stats in Search Console for a day last week, that’s a reporting issue on our side which you can ignore. Sorry for the confusion & hope your week otherwise starts off great! https://t.co/FFzFDERr6K
— John ☆.o(≧▽≦)o.☆ (@JohnMu) February 26, 2018
Not that any of you would have panicked, but in case you did, sit back with a nice glass of whiskey and relax. All is right with the world again.
