Google reveals official crawling indexing recovery timelines

Gary Illyes from Google recently shared official timelines for crawling indexing site moves and recovery processes during his Search Central Live session.

These ranges can help us gauge how long technical adjustments might take before seeing results in search.

Found it very interesting. SEJ wrote an article from Gary's talk

finally some real numbers from google lol, way better than guessing how long a fix takes to show up imo

The important thing is to separate crawling and indexing delays from actual ranking recovery. A page getting crawled or indexed again doesn't necessarily mean its rankings will return immediately. I'd use these timelines as benchmarks, not guaranteed recovery deadlines.

Google's recovery timelines are useful as a reference, but they won't apply equally to every site. Without knowing the sample size or what Google considers a typical case, it's difficult to predict how long a specific site's recovery will take.