According to Google Announcement, “Google strongly recommends using the newer version of each report, as it becomes available. Old search console reports with a new search console will be removed soon.”
Google create new search console that will replace the old one and old Google search console is going to remove on 28 March 2019. There are some differences between old search console and new search console. but before let's know about the new features of Google search console.
Improvement in New Google Search Console
- New Google search console has 16 months of search traffic data.
- It has complete information about a specific landing page, index coverage, canonical URL, mobile usability and many more.
- It works on mobile devices.
- It has new and improved tools and reports.
- New Google search console help you monitor, fix, and request recrawl of pages affected by crawling issues.
Compare old search console and new search console
Old Search Console | New Search Console | Comparison |
|---|---|---|
| Search Analytics |
Performance
| New Google search console has 16 months of data and is much easier to use. |
| Rich Cards | Individual Enhancement reports | New Google search console provides detailed debugging information, and a one-click request to recrawl fixed issues. |
| Links to your Site Internal links | Links | New Google search console combines both Links to your Site and Internal Links report, with more reliable link count numbers. |
| Index status | Index Coverage Status | New Google search console provides all the information of the old report, plus detailed crawl status information from the Google Index. |
| Sitemaps report | Sitemaps | Similar information, but better-designed report. The old report supports testing a sitemap without submitting it; the new report tests only upon submission. |
| Accelerated Mobile Pages | AMP Status | Many more error types reported in the new report, plus a fixed flow to request reindexing of fixed pages. |
| Manual Actions | Manual Actions | The new Google search console shows your manual action history, including review requests and results. |
| Fetch as Google | URL Inspection tool | The URL Inspection tool shows information about the indexed and live versions of a URL, with the ability to request a crawl. New information includes the URL of the canonical page, any no index/no crawl blocks, and whether or not the URL is in the Google index. |
| Mobile Usability | Mobile Usability | Similar information, but in a more usable format. Also provides a fix flow to request reindexing of pages with fixed mobile usability issues. |
| Crawl Errors report | Index coverage report and URL Inspection tool |
The old Google Search Console showed every single error encountered over the past three months, including some stale, transient, or relatively unimportant errors. The new reports focus on the issues in the past month that matter to Google: you are only shown an issue if it threatens to remove your page from the index or prevent the page from being indexed.
These new behaviors help you focus on issues that affect your site in the Google index, rather than simply reporting a laundry list of all errors that Googlebot ever encountered on your site.
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| Security Issues | New Security Issues report | The new Security Issues Google search console replaces most of the functionality of the old report, plus shows a history of issues for your site. |
| Structured Data | Rich Results test and Rich Results reports | For individual URLs, use the Rich Results test (or URL Inspection tool). For site-wide reporting see the individual Rich Results reports for your site. Although not every rich result type has a report yet, our coverage is increasing. |
| HTML Improvements | None | No equivalent report provided; please follow best practices to improve your titles and snippets. |
| Blocked Resources | URL Inspection tool | No site-wide view of blocked resources is available, but you can see a list of blocked resources for individual URLs using the URL Inspection tool. |
| Android apps | None | Android apps are no longer supported in Search Console after March 2019. |
| Property sets | None | Property sets are no longer supported in Search Console after March 2019. |
Source: Google
Don't need to submit website or data twice. Data and requests are shared between old search console and new search console.
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