Search Console now groups multiple countries in one filter

Search Console’s performance report can now combine several countries in one view. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable reports in Google Search Console Performance Report Multi-Select Country Filters that Google lets you check off multiple countries in the country filter to group them. Search Engine Journal covers the same change.

What changed in the report?#

The country filter used to take one country at a time. Per Search Engine Roundtable, you can now tick several and click update to group them. Its example selects the United States and Canada and reads their combined traffic as one number.

Search Engine Journal’s Google Search Console Lets You Filter By Multiple Countries says the update touches both the country and the device filters.

What did Google say?#

Both outlets quote a Google post on LinkedIn. We could not open the post, so the wording below is as quoted by Search Engine Roundtable: “Today we’re updating the Search Console performance report filters to make it easier for you to analyze traffic patterns across different countries and devices.” It adds: “If you operate in multiple countries, you can now view their combined Google Search traffic.”

Who benefits from grouping?#

Sites that serve several markets under one property. Before, a regional total meant adding per-country figures by hand or exporting data. Search Engine Journal points to Google’s help documentation, which it says limited comparisons to two items at a time.

A grouped view suits regions that share a language or a currency, such as the US and Canada in the example. It does not replace per-country views when markets behave differently. Grouping changes how you read the report, not what Google counts. Sites planning a market split can pair it with the international targeting strategy planner, and the hreflang tag generator covers the markup side.

What is still missing?#

Search Engine Roundtable says it wants click data in the AI performance reports. That is the writer’s wish, not a Google announcement, and neither source says Google plans it. For the Search Console and analytics context around performance data, see those topic hubs.