Core update
August 2024 core update
Rolled out 15 Aug – 3 Sep 2024, 19 days, 4 hours. Google’s page for it
What Google posted
Newest first. Times are UTC, with the Pacific time Google shows.
· 3 Sep 2024, 12:03 PDT
The rollout was complete as of September 3, 2024.
· 15 Aug 2024, 07:58 PDT
Released (developers.google.com) the August 2024 core update (developers.google.com). The rollout may take up to a month to complete.
Next to other core updates
Google’s 9th core update on its status dashboard, which lists them from November 2021.
It took 19 days, 4 hours. Of the 8 core updates before it, 2 took longer and 6 were shorter; they averaged 19 days, 12 hours.
- Before it: March 2024 core update, 5 Mar 2024
- After it: November 2024 core update, 11 Nov 2024
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