Search Console Add REGEX Filtering And Updated Comparison Mode In Performance Reports

Google has introduced two improvements that will make the reports more useful: regular expression (regex) filters and a revamped comparison mode.

Filters now support regular expressions: In the Performance reports, you can already use filters to slice and dice your data. Until now, users could filter queries and page URLs according to three patterns: containing a string, not containing a string, and exactly matching a string. Now there is a  new way to filter your data: regular expressions, or regex. To use the new regex filter, create a query or page filter, select the dropdown menu and select Custom. To learn more, visit the regex filters help center page.

We knew it was coming and this video from Annie Cushing is a great way to get the basic of Regex down, also this site Regex101 is something that can help you when trying to create some regex pattern.

Revamped comparison mode: You may have already been using the compare mode to answer comparison based questions. Previously, if more than one metric was selected, the table wouldn’t contain a comparison column with the relative difference in percentage. Starting today, the comparison mode fully supports cases where more than a single metric is selected, and they have improved the interface to make it easier to view those results side-by-side, almost doubling the area available for the data table. In addition, the comparison mode now supports the new regex filter for queries and pages.