# How do you combine Search Console, logs, crawlers and analytics?

> Each system answers different questions.

Source
Best question

Search Console
What does Google report?

Server logs
What actually reached the server?

Crawler
What can our crawler discover?

Analytics
What do users do?

CMS/database
What URLs should exist?

The strongest Technical SEO investigations reconcile these datasets.

For example:

**CMS:** 100,000 products

**Sitemap:** 95,000 URLs

**Crawler:** 90,000 discoverable URLs

**Logs:** 70,000 crawled recently

**Search Console:** 60,000 indexed

That discrepancy becomes the investigation.

## Sources

- [Google Search Central — Search Console Start](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/monitor-debug/search-console-start)
- [Google Search Central — Crawl Budget](https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawl-budget)

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Answered by Abhinav Krishna (https://www.theseocentral.com/author/abhinav-krishna)
Source: https://www.theseocentral.com/technical-seo-faq/how-do-you-combine-search-console-logs-crawlers-and-analytics