a single source, nothing corroborates it

Read Search Console by section, not as one number

A single site-wide click figure hides everything useful. Break the clicks down by subfolder to see which sections actually earn traffic, and split a swing by entity and by intent so you can tell a whole-domain move apart from a handful of queries doing the damage. Where engineering time is unavailable, apply title, description, canonical and redirect changes through a no-code layer instead of waiting.

The method

1. 01

   Break your Search Console clicks down by subfolder to find which sections of the site actually earn traffic, rather than reading the site as one number.

2. 02

   Split a traffic swing by entity and by search intent, so you can tell a whole-domain ranking move apart from a handful of queries doing the damage.

3. 03

   When you cannot get engineering time, apply title tags, meta descriptions, canonical changes, redirects, noindex tags and internal link edits through a no-code layer instead of waiting.

What it returned

• 2025

  Ahrefs Patches launched at the start of 2025 for titles and descriptions and has since added the rest. Some of it needs Cloudflare, which Glen Allsopp puts at roughly 70% CDN market share; internal link updates need only a JavaScript snippet.

• The Site structure report in Ahrefs Site Explorer does this for any domain and can drill into subdomains; syncing Search Console gives the same layout on your own click data.

• Intent categories named include Informational, Local and Branded, with raw traffic and ranking counts shown per entity.

Sources

• Custom Prompt Tracking, and 9 Other New Ahrefs Features I Love - Detailed.comGlen Allsopp · detailed.com · 7. View your top-performing subfolders in Google Search Console with the Site Structure report · 2026-01-13