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Arkivana and Google Search Console, side by side.
Arkivana reads your Search Console data through Google’s API and lays it out the way Search Console does, so the reports you already know are where you expect them. This page lists what Arkivana has today, what is coming soon, and what only Search Console offers.
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Performance
Search Console’s Performance report, laid out the way Search Console lays it out, over every day Arkivana has kept.
| Capability | Search Console | Arkivana |
|---|---|---|
| Search types | Web, Image, Video and News, with Discover and Google News as their own reports. | In Arkivana All six, chosen from one search type control. |
| Metrics | Clicks, impressions, click-through rate and average position. | In Arkivana The same four. Discover and Google News have no average position, as in Search Console. |
| Queries, pages, countries, devices, search appearance, dates | A tab for each. | In Arkivana A tab for each, sortable, with rows you can click to filter by. |
| Filters | Query, page, country, device and search appearance, in any combination, including custom regular expressions. | In Arkivana, with limits Each one on its own, and search appearance with a query or a page. A query and a page, or a country and a device, can’t be combined. Regular expressions follow PostgreSQL’s syntax rather than Google’s. |
| Comparisons | The previous period, the same period last year, a custom range, or two values of a dimension. | In Arkivana, with limits The previous period, and the same period last year. No custom comparison range yet. |
| Date range and history | From the last 7 days to the last 16 months, or custom dates within them. | In Arkivana The same ranges, custom dates, and every day Arkivana has kept, past Search Console’s 16 months. Charts shade the days Search Console no longer has. |
| Last 24 hours | Hour by hour, with tables, compared with the 24 hours before or the same day a week earlier. | In Arkivana, with limits Hour by hour for the whole site, compared with the 24 hours before. No filters or tables in this view yet. |
| Export | The current table, up to 1,000 rows, to Google Sheets, Excel or CSV. | In Arkivana The current table, up to 1,000 rows, to CSV — and, separately, every month Arkivana holds for your sites. |
| Shareable views | The view is in the page address. | In Arkivana The view is in the page address: search type, dates, comparison, filters, metrics and tab. |
| Chart annotations | Your own notes on the chart. | Search Console only Not yet. |
| AI Overviews and AI Mode | Counted within Web search. Separate AI reporting appears in Search Console’s own interface. | Search Console only Counted within Web search, as Google reports it. Search Console offers this in its own interface only. Google provides no API for it, so Arkivana cannot read it. |
Overview
| Capability | Search Console | Arkivana |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | Summaries of performance, indexing and experience, linking to each report. | In Arkivana, with limits Clicks, impressions and the number of pages earning impressions, for Web and Image search, with what moved and Google’s own data problems marked. Other search types are in the Performance report. |
Indexing and URL Inspection
| Capability | Search Console | Arkivana |
|---|---|---|
| Page indexing | Which pages are indexed, and Google’s reasons for those that aren’t. | Coming soon An indexing report built on Google’s URL Inspection API, kept as history so it can show when a page left the index. |
| Sitemaps | Submitted sitemaps, their status and page counts. Submit and remove sitemaps. | Coming soon Daily readings of your submitted sitemaps, in the same report. Arkivana never submits or removes anything. |
| URL Inspection | Inspect any URL on demand, run a live test, and request indexing. | Search Console only No on-demand inspection yet. Arkivana never requests indexing: its access to Search Console is read-only. |
| Video page indexing | A video indexing report. | Search Console only Search Console offers this in its own interface only. Google provides no API for it, so Arkivana cannot read it. |
Search Console’s other reports
Google provides no API for most of these, so they stay in Search Console, and Arkivana leaves them out rather than show an empty screen.
| Capability | Search Console | Arkivana |
|---|---|---|
| Core Web Vitals and HTTPS | Experience reports. | Search Console only Search Console offers this in its own interface only. Google provides no API for it, so Arkivana cannot read it. |
| Enhancements and Shopping | A report per structured-data type, and the Shopping reports. | Search Console only Search appearance figures — product results among them — are in the Performance report. The reports themselves aren’t available through Google’s API. |
| Links | Top linked pages, linking sites and anchor text. | Search Console only Search Console offers this in its own interface only. Google provides no API for it, so Arkivana cannot read it. |
| Security issues and manual actions | Reports and reconsideration requests. | Search Console only Search Console offers this in its own interface only. Google provides no API for it, so Arkivana cannot read it. |
| Removals | Temporary removals and outdated content. | Search Console only Not available through Google’s API — and Arkivana’s access is read-only, so it can’t remove anything. |
| Crawl stats | Crawl requests, responses and host status. | Search Console only Search Console offers this in its own interface only. Google provides no API for it, so Arkivana cannot read it. |
Accounts
| Capability | Search Console | Arkivana |
|---|---|---|
| Users and permissions | Owners, full and restricted users. | Search Console only Each account has its own owner. Inviting colleagues into an account isn’t built yet. |
Only in Arkivana
| Capability | Search Console | Arkivana |
|---|---|---|
| History that doesn’t age out | Sixteen months. Older days are no longer shown. | In Arkivana Search Console’s sixteen months are read when you connect, and every day after that is kept for as long as your account is open. |
| Alerts | — | In Arkivana Checks run every night and show what changed: pages and sections that stopped earning, fewer pages earning on a surface, filtered pages multiplying, a template losing clicks at the same rank. |
| Alerts by email | — | Coming soon Alerts and digests sent to the addresses you choose. |
| Before you looked | — | In Arkivana When a site is first connected, the same checks run once over its whole history, to show the largest things that happened before you were watching. |
| Striking distance | — | In Arkivana Searches ranking just below the positions that earn clicks on your own site, and the pages that hold them. |
| Competing pages | — | In Arkivana Searches where two or more of your own pages compete. |
| Revenue at risk | — | In Arkivana Your most valuable pages whose search performance is falling, valued from your catalog’s prices and your conversion rate — or a published industry figure, named as such, when you haven’t given one. |
| Page kinds | — | In Arkivana Addresses classified as product, category, filtered, brand, content and other kinds of page where the address shows which it is, with performance rolled up by kind. Addresses that can’t be told apart are left unclassified. |
| Explorer | — | In Arkivana Pages and queries filtered by page kind, SKU and category, when they first appeared, and how much they changed — including the ones that lost their traffic. |
| Your catalog | — | In Arkivana Read-only connections to Shopify, Magento (Adobe Commerce), WooCommerce and BigCommerce, read every night, so pages map to the products, SKUs and categories behind them. Searches that are the same search, spelled differently, roll up together. |
| Google’s data problems, marked | — | In Arkivana Known errors and changes in Google’s own figures are marked, and a comparison across one is held back or flagged rather than shown as a real change. |
| Export everything, delete everything | — | In Arkivana Every month Arkivana holds for your sites, as CSV files with a manifest, whenever you ask for it. Delete a single site yourself, at once or after 30 days. Close your account yourself, with or without taking a complete copy. |
“Coming soon” means built, and not switched on for any site as of the date above. Nothing starts reading data our privacy policy doesn’t yet describe.
Google Search Console is a trademark of Google LLC. Arkivana is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google. Search Console features are described as of the date above and may change.