Google impressions dropped after move to Cloudflare

What is the name of the domain?

What is the error number?

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What is the error message?

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What is the issue you’re encountering

Since moving from GoDaddy to Cloudflare impressions as reported on GSC have catered. It’s a small site that I’m using to test a tool and I was growing impressions organically as you can see on the chart working on SEO. I have even added more content since then and still my impressions are stuck to basically zero. The only thing I did was moving to CF.

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

Checked crawling and is fine. Pages are all indexed and showing in SERP. Users are using the website but coming from other sources than SERP. I’m really baffled and cannot solve this. Last resort will be to move out of CF but I wonder if someone can help before I take drastic measures because apart from this I really enjoy the service.

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

See attached

Screenshot of the error

I haven’t experienced this before :thinking:

Before moving to Cloudflare, was your Website working over HTTPS connection?

May I ask what SSL option have you got selected under the SSL/TLS tab at Cloudflare dashboard for your domain ( Flexible, Full, Full Strict … )? :thinking:

Do you see Googlebot requests being challenged or blocked under the Security tab → Events at Cloudflare dashboard for your zone? :thinking:

I’d suggest you to double-check the Security → Events at Cloudflare dashboard under your Cloudflare account for your zone, or via direct link https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/security/events.

You should be able to see the challenged or blocked event under the Security tab → Events at Cloudflare dashboard for your zone and know exactly which security option was triggered. Could be Managed Rules my best guess, otherwise Bot Fight Mode or Browser Integrity Check.

Thanks for the hints

I was using HTTPS before moving

SSL/TLS is set to Full - shall I change it?

Under Events there are no callouts

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