<b>GSC Crawl Stats vs raw logs: when each one wins</b>
The Search Console report is free and lies a little. Sources on reading it honestly.
→ <b>Google's Crawl Stats report help</b> — what the host-status and response-breakdown charts actually mean. Read the fine print on the 90-day window.
★ <b>Pick of the week — Lily Ray on Crawl Stats blind spots</b> — explains why GSC aggregates hide per-URL detail and groups CSS/JS oddly, so a log file is still the ground truth for "did Googlebot fetch THIS page."
→ <b>OnCrawl's "GSC vs logs" comparison</b> — side-by-side of where the numbers diverge and why (sampling, grouping, timezone).
→ <b>Google's crawl-budget doc</b> — pairs with the report to interpret "average response time" spikes.
Takeaway: GSC for the trend, raw logs for the specific URL. Use both; trust logs when they disagree.
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