How far back does my Google Search Console data go?

Google Search Console keeps up to 16 months of historical data. SEO Gets displays the same window unless you have a Super Site, which extends storage up to 5 years. Once data rolls off past the 16-month mark, it is no longer available in GSC or SEO Gets unless it was preserved with extended storage.

Why older data disappears

Google Search Console has a hard limit of 16 months for query and page-level data. This is not an SEO Gets restriction — it is how GSC works. As each new month of data comes in, the oldest month drops off. That means year-over-year comparisons and long-term trend analysis can only go back as far as those 16 months allow.

How to keep data longer than 16 months

A Super Site adds extended storage to a specific property, keeping up to 5 years of historical data. This is the only way to perform true multi-year comparisons or recover long-term trends in SEO Gets.

If you want to enable extended storage:

• Learn what Super Sites include

• See how to purchase Super Sites

• Follow the steps to enable a Super Site on your property

What to do if your older data is already gone

If the data you need has already rolled past the 16-month window, it cannot be recovered in SEO Gets. Google Search Console does not backfill, and SEO Gets cannot retrieve data that GSC has already deleted.

The best next step is to enable a Super Site now so future data is preserved. You can also export your current data as CSV to create an external backup before anything else rolls off.

Using extended storage for year-over-year analysis

Without extended storage, you can only compare the current 16-month window against itself. If you want to compare this January with last January, you need enough history to overlap. A Super Site gives you the full 5-year window to do that.

For a full walkthrough of how to run year-over-year comparisons, see Year-over-year SEO analysis with Google Search Console data.