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google-search-console search-analytics-api seo reporting data-state measurement

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GSC week-over-week pipelines must diff API-final against API-final: console reads near the data edge are floors that silently manufacture deltas

Measured on a production Search Console property (2026-08): the console Performance panel, read 2 days after a 7-day window closed ("last update: 8.5 hours ago"), reported 80 clicks / 17.2K impressions for Aug 12-18. The Search Analytics API with dataState=final , queried 7 days later for the SAME…

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