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Falling Pages

Falling Pages is the page-only loser view: it surfaces the URLs whose clicks dropped most between the selected reporting window and the immediately preceding window of equal length. This is the highest-priority report in the entire app — losses compound, and the cost of catching a falling page early is a fraction of the cost of recovering it later.

What it measures

  • URL — the landing page.
  • Current vs prior clicks / impressions / CTR / position for each URL.
  • Click delta — absolute and percentage drop. Sort key.

How we compute it

  1. The prior window is the equal-length range immediately preceding the current window.
  2. For each window we aggregate clicks, impressions and impression-weighted position per URL.
  3. URLs are sorted by the largest negative click delta.

Scenarios you'll see

Position regression

Position dropped 3+ spots, clicks followed. The classic loser pattern. Investigate competitor SERPs, recent edits, intent drift, internal-link changes.

CTR collapse

Position stable, impressions stable, but clicks fell. SERP feature (AI overview, PAA, image pack) likely intercepting clicks. Lean into rich titles, schema and brand cues.

Cannibalised by sibling

A historically strong URL is falling while a related URL on the same theme is rising. Run Cannibalization on the affected query to confirm; consolidate.

Long-term decay tipping point

A URL gradually decaying for months suddenly cliffs. Refresh the content; if the topic itself is fading, retire and redirect.

Technical regression

Clicks/impressions both crater toward zero. Suspect 404, no-index, canonical pointing elsewhere, robots block, or migration-induced URL change.

Algorithm-update casualty

Cluster of falling URLs aligned with a known Google update. Note in annotations and benchmark recovery from the new baseline.

What to do with it

  1. Triage by absolute click loss, not percentage. A URL that lost 800 clicks matters more than a small URL that lost 90% of 30.
  2. For each top loser, run a quick checklist: indexable? canonical correct? recent edit? SERP change? competitor change? cannibalising sibling?
  3. Decide deliberately: refresh, consolidate, redirect, or retire. Doing nothing is also a decision — make it consciously.

Caveats & limits

  • Seasonality can produce real but temporary losses. Cross-check with YoY Dashboard before treating a loser as a problem.
  • A URL that was retired or 301-redirected during the prior window will appear as a 100% loss — that's expected.

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