This article outlines recommendations and notes certain limitations imposed by the data source API, which you may need to consider when building your queries.
If you are connecting to this data source, please follow the instructions in our connection guide, and the available fields for this connector are listed in the metrics and dimensions documentation.
Request limits and recommended refresh rate
Request limit: See Google’s documentation for usage limits
API delay: 2 days
Recommended refresh window: 4 days
Historical range
With the Google Search Console data source connector, the data is available for the last 16 months.
Accounts in Google Search Console
In the Google Search Console connector, each Site is considered a separate account within the connection.
Your Supermetrics subscription determines the number of data source accounts you can use simultaneously.
Things to consider
Inconsistencies in Google Search Console and Supermetrics
In several cases, the main part of the table details in the Google Search Console UI does not align with the API. However, if you check the pop-up that appears when you hover on the graph, those daily details are correct and match the API. We’re not clear why this is the case, but if there are discrepancies with no other explanation, validate against the pop-up version of the data rather than the table view. If that matches, report the UI issue to Google to resolution.
Using the Path dimension changes impression aggregation
The Path dimension can produce different impression totals than what you see in Google Search Console.
This happens because Path strips out URL parameters, or everything after the "?", before aggregating the data. Google Search Console's Pages report, on the other hand, shows the full URL. For example, if www.foo-bar.com?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc has its own impressions in Google Search Console, that traffic gets folded into the homepage path (/) when you aggregate by Path. As a result, the impression count for / can end up higher than what Google Search Console shows for the homepage alone.