: Google Index chart update issue I am using google webmaster to monitor maintain my site regarding SEO aspects. My site suffered a huge amount of index drop during last few months. I understand

@Miguel251

I'm afraid, data delivery in the search console lagging behind for some days is always to be expected, although it's not the general case.

Also, it is a little bit of a special case at the moment: Google has been working on updates on the search console for some weeks (see e.g. this Page in Google's help pages: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6211453#indexed).
There have also been known glitches in the data as well (as stated by Google's John Mueller, see here: twitter.com/JohnMu/status/796084640561905668). As always, updates may not go without difficulties and Google is no exception to that rule ;-)

For purposes as yours, I find it generally useful to use XML sitemaps at least as additional source of information.

You may, for example, set up multiple XML sitemaps for different kinds of pages and submit them in the search console in order to get more exact information about what part of your website is indexed and what part is not or partial.

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