May 19, 2026 at 11:23 am
#4765
Participant
In most cases, yeah, I’d still be looking at logs before blaming the update itself. GSC impressions bouncing around doesn’t mean much on its own, honestly — Google does that crap all the time. If the bot’s still crawling normally and you’re not seeing 5xx/4xx spikes, I wouldn’t panic yet. If crawl dropped or a bunch of URLs stopped getting fetched, then yeah, something changed even if the site “looks” identical.