See whether a Google update is rolling out right now, find every confirmed core, spam and reviews update since 2021 on one timeline, and test your own Search Console clicks against each rollout to see which update actually moved your traffic.
No Google update is rolling out. The latest, the September 2026 spam update, finished on 8 Oct 2026.
Last core update: the May 2026 core update, rolled out from 21 May 2026 to 2 Jun 2026.
Source: Google Search Status Dashboard.
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A drop that starts inside a rollout window is not proof on its own, because traffic also moves with the season, with your own site changes and with plain noise. So the checker does more than draw your clicks under the update bands: for every update in your data it compares the four weeks before the rollout with the four weeks after it, sets that against your site's normal four-week swing and against the same weeks a year earlier, and tells you which updates moved your traffic beyond what your site does anyway.
| Update | Clicks a day, before → after | Change | Same weeks last year | Impressions | Avg. position | Verdict |
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Windows are whole weeks in Search Console's Pacific-time days, so weekdays line up. "Normal swing" is the median change between two such windows anywhere in your data. How the verdict works.
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This is every Ranking entry on Google's Search Status Dashboard: core updates, spam updates, the reviews and helpful content updates (which Google no longer announces separately), and the ranking issues Google reported there. Times are US/Pacific, as Google posts them. Each name links to Google's dashboard entry, and "Google's post" to the announcement Google linked from it.
| Update | Type | Started | Finished | Rollout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ||||
| September 2026 spam update Google's post | Spam | 24 Sep 2026 | 8 Oct 2026 | 13 days, 16 hours |
| August 2026 spam update Google's post | Spam | 18 Aug 2026 | 21 Aug 2026 | 2 days, 16 hours |
| June 2026 spam update Google's post | Spam | 24 Jun 2026 | 26 Jun 2026 | 2 days, 1 hour |
| May 2026 core update Google's post | Core | 21 May 2026 | 2 Jun 2026 | 11 days, 21 hours |
| March 2026 core update Google's post | Core | 27 Mar 2026 | 8 Apr 2026 | 12 days, 4 hours |
| March 2026 spam update Google's post | Spam | 24 Mar 2026 | 25 Mar 2026 | 20 hours |
| February 2026 Discover update Google's post | Other | 5 Feb 2026 | 27 Feb 2026 | 21 days, 17 hours |
| 2025 | ||||
| December 2025 core update Google's post | Core | 11 Dec 2025 | 29 Dec 2025 | 18 days, 2 hours |
| August 2025 spam update Google's post | Spam | 26 Aug 2025 | 22 Sep 2025 | 26 days, 15 hours |
| June 2025 core update Google's post | Core | 30 Jun 2025 | 17 Jul 2025 | 16 days, 18 hours |
| March 2025 core update Google's post | Core | 13 Mar 2025 | 27 Mar 2025 | 13 days, 21 hours |
| 2024 | ||||
| December 2024 spam update Google's post | Spam | 19 Dec 2024 | 26 Dec 2024 | 7 days, 2 hours |
| December 2024 core update Google's post | Core | 12 Dec 2024 | 18 Dec 2024 | 6 days, 4 hours |
| November 2024 core update Google's post | Core | 11 Nov 2024 | 5 Dec 2024 | 23 days, 13 hours |
| Ranking is experiencing an ongoing issue. | Other | 15 Aug 2024 | 20 Aug 2024 | 4 days, 11 hours |
| August 2024 core update Google's post | Core | 15 Aug 2024 | 3 Sep 2024 | 19 days, 4 hours |
| June 2024 spam update Google's post | Spam | 20 Jun 2024 | 27 Jun 2024 | 7 days, 1 hour |
| March 2024 spam update Google's post | Spam | 5 Mar 2024 | 20 Mar 2024 | 14 days, 21 hours |
| March 2024 core update Google's post | Core | 5 Mar 2024 | 19 Apr 2024 | 45 days |
| 2023 | ||||
| November 2023 reviews update Google's post | Reviews & helpful content | 8 Nov 2023 | 7 Dec 2023 | 29 days |
| November 2023 core update Google's post | Core | 2 Nov 2023 | 28 Nov 2023 | 25 days, 21 hours |
| October 2023 core update Google's post | Core | 5 Oct 2023 | 19 Oct 2023 | 13 days, 23 hours |
| Ranking is experiencing an ongoing issue Google's post | Other | 5 Oct 2023 | 31 Oct 2023 | 26 days |
| October 2023 spam update Google's post | Spam | 4 Oct 2023 | 19 Oct 2023 | 15 days, 12 hours |
| September 2023 helpful content update Google's post | Reviews & helpful content | 14 Sep 2023 | 28 Sep 2023 | 13 days, 11 hours |
| August 2023 core update Google's post | Core | 22 Aug 2023 | 7 Sep 2023 | 16 days, 3 hours |
| April 2023 reviews update Google's post | Reviews & helpful content | 12 Apr 2023 | 25 Apr 2023 | 13 days, 2 hours |
| March 2023 core update Google's post | Core | 15 Mar 2023 | 28 Mar 2023 | 13 days, 7 hours |
| February 2023 product reviews update Google's post | Reviews & helpful content | 21 Feb 2023 | 7 Mar 2023 | 14 days |
| 2022 | ||||
| December 2022 link spam update Google's post | Spam | 14 Dec 2022 | 12 Jan 2023 | 29 days |
| December 2022 helpful content update Google's post | Reviews & helpful content | 5 Dec 2022 | 12 Jan 2023 | 38 days |
| October 2022 spam update Google's post | Spam | 19 Oct 2022 | 21 Oct 2022 | 2 days |
| September 2022 product reviews update Google's post | Reviews & helpful content | 20 Sep 2022 | 26 Sep 2022 | 6 days |
| September 2022 core update Google's post | Core | 12 Sep 2022 | 26 Sep 2022 | 14 days |
| August 2022 helpful content update Google's post | Reviews & helpful content | 25 Aug 2022 | 9 Sep 2022 | 15 days |
| July 2022 product reviews update Google's post | Reviews & helpful content | 27 Jul 2022 | 2 Aug 2022 | 6 days |
| May 2022 core update Google's post | Core | 25 May 2022 | 9 Jun 2022 | 15 days |
| March 2022 product reviews update Google's post | Reviews & helpful content | 23 Mar 2022 | 6 Apr 2022 | 14 days |
| Page experience update for desktop Google's post | Other | 22 Feb 2022 | 3 Mar 2022 | 9 days |
| 2021 | ||||
| December 2021 product reviews update Google's post | Reviews & helpful content | 1 Dec 2021 | 21 Dec 2021 | 20 days |
| November 2021 core update | Core | 17 Nov 2021 | 30 Nov 2021 | 13 days |
A Google core update is a broad change to the systems that rank every result, which is why it can move a site that changed nothing. Google confirms each one on its dashboard, and the start and end times there give an exact rollout window for each core update. These are the numbers from that history.
Google has confirmed 16 core updates since the dashboard's history starts in November 2021, about 3.3 a year in the full years 2022–2025. A finished core update took 17.4 days to roll out on average (median 14.5), from 6.1 days for the December 2024 core update to 45 days for the March 2024 core update. Spam updates are usually shorter, 11 days on average over 11 of them. Since 2023 Google has given an estimate with every core update, mostly "up to 2 weeks", and 9 of those 13 rollouts finished within it; the ones that ran over are marked in red below. Plan on a rollout lasting longer than announced, and treat rankings inside a rollout window as unsettled.
| Core update | Started | Finished | Google's estimate | Actual rollout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2026 core update | 21 May 2026 | 2 Jun 2026 | up to 2 weeks | 11.9 days |
| March 2026 core update | 27 Mar 2026 | 8 Apr 2026 | up to 2 weeks | 12.2 days |
| December 2025 core update | 11 Dec 2025 | 29 Dec 2025 | up to 3 weeks | 18.1 days |
| June 2025 core update | 30 Jun 2025 | 17 Jul 2025 | up to 3 weeks | 16.7 days |
| March 2025 core update | 13 Mar 2025 | 27 Mar 2025 | up to 2 weeks | 13.9 days |
| December 2024 core update | 12 Dec 2024 | 18 Dec 2024 | up to 2 weeks | 6.1 days |
| November 2024 core update | 11 Nov 2024 | 5 Dec 2024 | up to 2 weeks | 23.5 days (longer than Google's estimate) |
| August 2024 core update | 15 Aug 2024 | 3 Sep 2024 | up to a month | 19.2 days |
| March 2024 core update | 5 Mar 2024 | 19 Apr 2024 | up to a month | 45 days (longer than Google's estimate) |
| November 2023 core update | 2 Nov 2023 | 28 Nov 2023 | up to 2 weeks | 25.9 days (longer than Google's estimate) |
| October 2023 core update | 5 Oct 2023 | 19 Oct 2023 | up to 2 weeks | 14 days |
| August 2023 core update | 22 Aug 2023 | 7 Sep 2023 | up to 2 weeks | 16.1 days (longer than Google's estimate) |
| March 2023 core update | 15 Mar 2023 | 28 Mar 2023 | up to 2 weeks | 13.3 days |
| September 2022 core update | 12 Sep 2022 | 26 Sep 2022 | none given | 14 days |
| May 2022 core update | 25 May 2022 | 9 Jun 2022 | none given | 15 days |
| November 2021 core update | 17 Nov 2021 | 30 Nov 2021 | none given | 13 days |
Search Console reports each day in Pacific time, which is also the time zone Google uses on its status dashboard, so the checker lines the two up day by day without any conversion. For every update that falls inside your export it takes the 28 days before the rollout started and the 28 days after it finished. The rollout itself is left out of both windows, because rankings shift around unevenly while an update is landing and a window that straddles it blurs the result. When your data does not reach 28 days past the end, both windows shrink to the same number of whole weeks, with a minimum of one week, so a Monday is always compared with a Monday.
A percentage on its own says little, because some sites swing 3% from one month to the next and others 20%. The checker therefore measures your normal swing: it slides the same before and after windows, with the same gap between them, across your whole export and takes the median change. A change smaller than that swing (or smaller than 5%) is marked as normal movement. A change of more than twice the swing and more than 10% is marked as a likely hit or a likely boost, and anything between the two as possible.
When your export covers the same weeks a year earlier, the checker also calculates what happened in those weeks and takes it out of the change, so a travel site that always drops in September does not blame the September core update for it. Updates whose rollouts overlap, such as the March 2024 core and spam updates, cannot be told apart from clicks alone, so the checker names the overlap instead of guessing. The verdict is based on clicks; impressions and average position are shown next to it because a drop in position with flat impressions points at rankings, while a drop in impressions at the same position points at demand.
Google's own advice is that a drop after a core update does not mean anything is wrong with your pages, because the update re-ranks everything and other pages may simply be judged more useful now. That still leaves plenty to check before you change anything.
Check that the drop starts inside the rollout window rather than a week before it, and that the checker above rates it beyond your normal swing once last year's season is taken out. A drop that started before the update began has another cause.
Look at the Manual actions and Security issues reports in Search Console, at indexing and robots.txt changes, and at any release, migration or tracking change of your own around the same days. Google's guide to debugging drops in Search traffic walks through them.
Compare the four weeks after the rollout with the four weeks before it in the Performance report, by page and by query. Losses that cluster in one template, topic or content type tell you far more than a site-wide total, and a slide from position 2 to 4 is normal movement that Google itself says needs no fix.
Search the lost queries and read what ranks now. Google points to its questions on helpful, reliable, people-first content as the way to judge your own pages. Recovery often only shows after the next core update, so judge your changes against that rollout rather than against next week.
A drop after a spam update is a different case: it points at something on the site that breaks Google's spam policies, such as bought links or scaled low-value pages, so start there rather than with content quality in general. Google's own explanation of core updates is on its core updates page.
This page answers the question once, for one export. GSC Wizard, the Search Console tool I build, keeps answering it for every site you connect: its Google Update Checker report runs the same before-and-after check on the history it stores, with the same confirmed list from Google's dashboard.
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The status card at the top of this page answers that. It reads Google's own Search Status Dashboard when you open the page, so a new update shows up here as soon as Google posts it. When this page was last rebuilt from the dashboard, on November 8, 2026, no update was rolling out and the most recent one, the September 2026 spam update, had finished on October 8, 2026.
The last confirmed core update is the May 2026 core update. It started on May 21, 2026 and finished on June 2, 2026, after 11.9 days (US/Pacific, as Google posts it).
17.4 days on average, with a median of 14.5 days, over the 16 finished core updates since November 2021. The shortest was the December 2024 core update (6.1 days) and the longest the March 2024 core update (45 days). Google gives an estimate in each announcement, usually "up to 2 weeks", and 9 of the 13 core updates that came with one finished within it.
About 3.3 times a year: 2 in 2022, 4 in 2023, 4 in 2024, 3 in 2025. Google also ships thousands of smaller changes a year that it does not announce, which is why rankings move between confirmed updates too.
A core update is a broad change to how Google ranks results overall, and Google says there is nothing specific to fix after one: pages can drop because others are now judged more relevant. A spam update improves the systems that detect spam, such as SpamBrain, and mainly hits sites that break the spam policies. A drop after a spam update is therefore a reason to check your site against those policies, while a drop after a core update is a reason to look at the quality and relevance of the pages that lost traffic.
No. It lists only what Google has confirmed on its Search Status Dashboard, including the ranking issues Google reported there. Rank volatility trackers also flag unconfirmed turbulence, which can be useful, but a date that Google never confirmed is a weaker explanation for a traffic change than the confirmed rollouts listed here.
Not when you use this page. An export you add is read by JavaScript in your own browser tab and never uploaded, so the checker also works for client sites you cannot share; close the tab or press Remove data and it is gone. Signing in with Google is different: it opens GSC Wizard, where the Google Update Checker report runs on the Search Console data GSC Wizard stores for your account, as described in the privacy policy.
This page uses Google's start and end times in US/Pacific, exactly as the Search Status Dashboard posts them. Trackers that convert to another time zone, or that use the date of an announcement tweet instead, can be a day off. The checker draws each rollout as the full window from start to finish, because the effect of an update can land on any day inside it.
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