In Google Webmaster Tools, why we can't see more than 30+few days back? It cannot be about space on the servers as they have that data anyway.
Come on Google...
tedster
4:45 am on Mar 31, 2012 (gmt 0)
They've never given a good explanation, as I see it. We can, of course, archive the data ourselves.
I'd guess that most webmasters weren't looking at it anyway. And I KNOW that the 30-day data can be pretty far out in orbit. I've got one site I operate for a relatively famous name - it's their "official site". It has always ranked #1 for the name - and yet WMT tells me it averages #27 for that query. Simply not true.
When data is going to be used for important decisions, I don't depend on Webmaster Tools anyway.
Andy Langton
9:41 am on Mar 31, 2012 (gmt 0)
They indicated via a recent blog post that they may increase this limit (can't find the reference at the moment, unfortunately).
But they clearly have the data, and are just not willing to provide it to webmasters, which does not a good webmaster tool make!
lucy24
10:47 am on Mar 31, 2012 (gmt 0)
! When did their dates go screwy? Within my memory it was always 30 days by default, manually changeable to up to 35-- but it was always on a 3-day delay. So right now-- I'm in the same time zone as g###-- I'd be seeing totals from 27 February through 28 March, with the option of pushing it back to 22 February.
Instead it claims to be showing 1 through 31 March, with a calendar running back to 25 February ... but if you look at the dates on the graph itself and count those fat red and blue dots, it still runs out on the 28th. And it won't show anything earlier, even if you tack on 5 days.
Hm. Wonder what happened the Thursday before last? I've got a huge spike. Only in Impressions, darn it, not in Clicks. But still, a factor of 4 is pretty striking. Maybe someone at g### hit the wrong button on their calculator.
