Bug left the Search Console performance report more than 64 hours behind

The Search Console performance report, which normally updates within a few hours, ran more than 64 hours behind on the morning of October 11, 2026. Barry Schwartz tracked the lag out to 66 and 67 hours before it fell back to 44 hours later that day, and another site owner reported a roughly 62-hour delay.

Google had not commented as of publication. The lag had been building since the September 2026 spam update; the last comparable performance report delay was in December 2025, which Google fixed. Barry Schwartz also linked the problems to third-party tools struggling to scrape Google data over the preceding weeks.