Search Console shows how your pages do in Google Search. When you connect it, PerfBee shows those numbers next to each page it crawls. The connection is read-only: PerfBee never changes anything in your Google account. Search Console numbers are on every plan and cost no credits.
Before you start
- Verify the site in PerfBee. PerfBee links a Search Console property only to a site you verified in My Sites. See Verifying Your Site.
- Use the right Google account. It needs access to the property in Search Console. An unverified user is not enough.
- Be the workspace owner to connect. Only the owner can connect or disconnect a Google account. After that, the owner, admins and members can link a property to a site, press Refresh and press Unlink. Viewers can see the numbers but cannot change anything.
Connect your Google account
- Open Settings, then Integrations.
- Under Connect a Google account, press Connect next to Search Console. A notice titled Before you connect Google shows what PerfBee reads, who can see it and how you disconnect. Read it, then press Continue to Google.
- Google asks you to sign in. It shows the permission PerfBee asks for: reading your Search Console data. Leave the box ticked and allow it.
- Back in PerfBee, the account is listed with its email address and the status Connected.
If you untick the permission, PerfBee cannot save the connection. Press Connect again and leave the box ticked. A Google Workspace administrator can block apps. If Google refuses when it asks you to sign in, ask your administrator to allow PerfBee, or connect with another account.
Link a property to a site
- Open My Sites and click the site.
- Find the Google Search Console & Analytics card. If it asks you to verify the site first, use the Ownership card.
- Press Choose property. If you connected more than one Google account, use the Google account list to choose the one that has the property.
- Pick the property under Properties that match your-site.com, then press Link this property. PerfBee lists only properties that match the site. It tells you how many others it left out, and never shows their names.
- PerfBee reads the numbers at once. The card shows the dates they cover and when they were last refreshed.
A property matches when it covers the site's address. www.your-site.com and your-site.com count as one site. A domain property covers every subdomain of your domain. PerfBee still reads only the pages of this site's host, and of its folder when the site is a folder. It never reads the pages of your other subdomains.
What PerfBee reads
- The list of your Search Console sites, so it can offer the ones that match.
- For the linked property: the clicks, impressions and average position of each page, for the last 28 days and the 28 days before. Also the daily clicks and impressions of the whole site, kept for 16 months.
- The index status Google reports for pages PerfBee checks. See URL Inspection: Google Index Status.
- The email address of the Google account, to show which account is connected.
What PerfBee does not read
- Search queries. PerfBee never asks Google for the words people typed.
- Anything that identifies a visitor. Search Console does not give it, and PerfBee does not ask for it.
- Numbers of your other properties. PerfBee reads the list of your sites. It reads numbers only for the property you linked, and only for the pages of the site you linked it to.
What PerfBee does with the numbers
PerfBee shows them to you: in Site Pages, in Page Detail, in the order of your Fixes list and in the files you download. See Search Console Numbers in Site Pages. That is all. PerfBee does not sell them and does not use them for advertising. It does not send them to AI models. They never appear on shared report pages, and the tools of the MCP server never return them. People at PerfBee do not read them, except for security, to follow the law, or as aggregated figures for running the service. PerfBee's use of information from Google follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. The details are in the Privacy Policy.
How fresh the numbers are
PerfBee refreshes them once a day. It skips a site with no scan and no sign-in to your workspace in the last 30 days. Press Refresh on the card to ask for new numbers sooner, once an hour for each site. Search Console data is a few days behind. PerfBee uses Google's final numbers only.
Google gives at most the top 50,000 pages by clicks. When PerfBee had to stop at that limit, the card says so. A page that is missing then shows no number, never zero.
Disconnect
- Unlink one site: open the card in My Sites and press Unlink. PerfBee deletes that site's Google numbers.
- Remove a Google account: open Settings, then Integrations, and press Disconnect. PerfBee revokes its access at Google and deletes the numbers of every site linked through that account.
- Remove PerfBee at Google: go to myaccount.google.com/permissions. PerfBee then cannot read anything new. It finds out at its next read, for example the daily refresh or a press on Refresh. It then hides the numbers at once and deletes them 14 days after Google reports the access is gone, unless you connect the account again first.
Closing your PerfBee account revokes the Google connection at once and deletes the Google data with it.
If something stops working
- Reconnect needed: Google no longer accepts the saved permission. Press Reconnect with the same account. You find the button in Settings, then Integrations, next to the account. It is also on the site's Google card in My Sites. PerfBee tells you once in a notification. Until you reconnect, it hides the numbers, and it deletes them 14 days after Google reports the access is gone.
- Access lost: Search Console no longer lists the property for this account, or your permission dropped to unverified user. PerfBee hides the numbers at once and deletes them 14 days after Google reports the access is gone.
- Paused: the site is no longer verified in PerfBee. The numbers are hidden, not deleted. After you verify the site again, they come back at PerfBee's next daily refresh.
- Last read failed: the last read from Google did not finish. PerfBee keeps the numbers it has and tries again at the next daily refresh. Press Refresh to try sooner.
Plans
Search Console numbers, the Fixes ranking that uses them and Inspect now are on every plan. Scheduled index checks are for Starter and up. The Site Pages download, with the Google columns, is for Starter and up too. Google Analytics numbers are on every plan too.