Search Console Discover Report Now Includes Chrome Web Data

Discover traffic from Chrome Browser (on Android or iOS) wasn’t included in the existing Discover performance report but that is about to change. Discover performance report in Search console will be providing a single place in Search Console to see all your site’s Discover impressions and click stats, including from Chrome.

Over the course of the next few months, this data will gradually appear in your site’s Search Console Discover performance report. This means your site’s reported traffic levels may rise from where they were.

Another change is that  Discover traffic from Chrome will be using a new origin referrer https://www.google.com/ so it is consistent with what’s used for Discover on the Google app. This will replace the previous www.googleapis.com/auth/chrome-content-suggestions referrer, the issue with that as Valentin pointed out is that now discover data might be harder to spot in Analytics

In case you are interested:

iOS Chrome 87.0.4280.77https://t.co/469UiEjLg0

Android Chrome 88.0.4324.141https://t.co/469UiEjLg0

According to this article this is about to change to https://t.co/f1aQQ4GKbp which is bad because then it's truly indistinguishable from Organic https://t.co/AaSkBwu3L1

— Valentin Pletzer (@VorticonCmdr) February 2, 2021