Case studies: logs vs Search Console

Case studies: logs vs Search Console

When the two sources disagreed, the log won.

→ Builtvisible discrepancy study — GSC Crawl Stats reported 40k requests/day; raw logs showed 71k. The gap was Googlebot fetching images and JS that GSC under-reports. Reframed a 'low crawl budget' panic.
Takeaway: GSC summarizes; logs are the ground truth.

⭐ Pick of the week — Merj reconciliation method — published a step-by-step to align log counts with GSC by filtering resource types, getting them within 5%. Explains every category of mismatch.
Takeaway: reconcile once, trust your logs forever after.

→ Google Crawl Stats help doc — what the report does and doesn't count.
Takeaway: read the fine print before trusting the number.