Core update
March 2024 core update
Rolled out 5 Mar – 19 Apr 2024, 44 days, 23 hours. Google’s page for it
What Google posted
Newest first. Times are UTC, with the Pacific time Google shows.
· 26 Apr 2024, 13:09 PDT
The rollout was complete as of April 19, 2024.
· 5 Mar 2024, 09:02 PST
Released (developers.google.com) the March 2024 core update (developers.google.com). The rollout may take up to a month to complete.
Next to other core updates
Google’s 8th core update on its status dashboard, which lists them from November 2021.
It took 44 days, 23 hours, longer than every core update before it (they averaged 15 days, 21 hours).
- Before it: November 2023 core update, 2 Nov 2023
- After it: August 2024 core update, 15 Aug 2024
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