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
- The prior window is the equal-length range immediately preceding the current window.
- For each window we aggregate clicks, impressions and impression-weighted position per URL.
- URLs are sorted by the largest negative click delta.
Scenarios you'll see
Position dropped 3+ spots, clicks followed. The classic loser pattern. Investigate competitor SERPs, recent edits, intent drift, internal-link changes.
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.
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.
A URL gradually decaying for months suddenly cliffs. Refresh the content; if the topic itself is fading, retire and redirect.
Clicks/impressions both crater toward zero. Suspect 404, no-index, canonical pointing elsewhere, robots block, or migration-induced URL change.
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
- Triage by absolute click loss, not percentage. A URL that lost 800 clicks matters more than a small URL that lost 90% of 30.
- For each top loser, run a quick checklist: indexable? canonical correct? recent edit? SERP change? competitor change? cannibalising sibling?
- 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.
Related reports
- Rising Pages — the inverse view.
- Content Decay — long-term decline detection.
- Cannibalization — when losers are paired with rising siblings.
- Index Coverage — when the cause is a technical regression.