Indexation Report - Day 1 Aug Core Update

Day 1070 of the indexation research

Welcome to Crawl or No Crawl report for August 16, first full day since the latest Core update announced yesterday.

This is now the 2nd Core update (March Core was 1st) with everything the HCU used to do as a “shoulder update” now being baked into the Core update. I know everyone is fingers crossed hopefully for a spontaneous recovery for sites (that have made no changes) which were crunched by previous HCUs. I wish I didn’t know what I saw in my analysis or I would be hopeful too. (Don’t hate the player, hate the game.)

Yesterday brought more than just an update announcement. I will unpack it with cliff note style and then by the details.