Your ranking numbers are unreliable this week
Google's own traffic report and the outside tools that track your positions are both wobbling at once.
Google Search Console's performance report, the place you see clicks and search positions, is still badly delayed. That part was already true earlier this week. What is new is that the outside tools people use instead are now struggling too.
Barry Schwartz posted that third-party Google Search tracking tools are "struggling big time now", and named posts from Derek Perkins, Lily Ray, Ryan Jones and Glenn Gabe among many more. So the backup plan is wobbling at the same time as the main one.
Third-party Google Search tracking tools are struggling big time now
Why people are watching this
Shaun Anderson of @hobo_web says a delay like this has shown up before, right ahead of big ranking changes. His words were that it happened the last couple of times just before Google went after commodity content in a broad core update, a broad core update being one of Google's large, site-wide reshuffles of search results. He expects one any day.
That is one SEO's read, not a Google announcement. Nobody has confirmed a new update is running. Treat it as a hunch from someone who watches this closely, nothing more.
What this means for you
If your rankings look like they moved this week, you cannot trust that. A drop in your reported position might be a real drop, or it might be a tool that cannot see straight. Same with a jump. The data is the problem, not necessarily your site.
So do nothing for now. Do not rewrite pages, pull content, or change your titles because of a number you saw this week. Those decisions are hard to undo and you would be making them on bad information.
If you want one useful habit, write down today's date and what you were working on. When the reporting catches up and the tools settle, you will be able to tell whether a change in your numbers lines up with something you did or with the week everything went fuzzy.
Check back in a few days. Search Console usually fills the gap in once the delay clears, so the clicks and positions you are missing should appear rather than vanish. Make your decisions off that, not off this week's screenshots.
This delay happened the last couple of times just before Google went for commodity content in a Broad Core Update.
Be the person who already knew
One email a day. Under three minutes. You will hear about a Google change before it shows up in your traffic.

