Wix Bot Traffic logs: Response Status Over Time report deep dive

The Wix Response Status Over Time report inside Bot Traffic Analytics shows how search engines are responding to your pages across time — revealing crawl errors, redirect chains and server issues that traditional analytics tools miss entirely. This report is one of the most underused but most valuable diagnostic tools in the Wix platform.

Accessing the Report

Finding the Response Status Over Time report in Wix

• Navigate to Wix Dashboard > Analytics > Bot Traffic
• Select the Bot Traffic Analytics tab
• Scroll to the Response Status Over Time section
• Set the date range to the last 90 days for trend analysis
• Toggle between individual bots (Googlebot, Bingbot, etc.) for bot-specific data

Reading the Status Code Distribution

• 200 OK: healthy crawl responses — this should be the dominant status code
• 301/302 redirects: excessive redirect volume wastes crawl budget
• 404 Not Found: broken pages losing ranking equity and wasting bot visits
• 500 Server Errors: critical infrastructure issues requiring immediate action
• 403 Forbidden: misconfigured access controls blocking valid bot crawls

Diagnosing Problems from Status Code Patterns

A sudden spike in 404 responses usually indicates deleted pages, changed URL structures or a CMS publishing error. A rising trend in 301 responses suggests increasing redirect chains as your site has grown. A spike in 500 errors indicates server-side problems often caused by third-party app conflicts or hosting issues. Each pattern requires a different diagnosis workflow.

Cross-Referencing with GSC Coverage Report

Response Status Over Time in Wix shows the raw server response data. GSC Coverage shows how those responses affected indexing decisions. When you see a 404 spike in Wix bot traffic data, check the GSC Coverage report for corresponding increases in "Not Found" errors. The two reports together give you the full picture: what the server returned and what Google decided to do with it.

How to Investigate and Fix 404 Errors Revealed in Wix Bot Traffic Reports

How to diagnose and resolve 404 Not Found errors identified in the Wix Bot Traffic report

• Open your Wix Dashboard and navigate to Analytics & Reports > Bot Traffic.
• Select the Response Status Over Time report and set the date range to the last 90 days.
• If the 404 count is rising or forms more than 5% of total bot responses, click through to identify the affected URLs.
• Cross-reference the 404 URL list with your Google Search Console Coverage report by navigating to GSC > Coverage > Excluded > Not Found (404) to confirm which pages Google has also registered as broken.
• For each 404 URL that was a former page with real content or incoming links, open your Wix Dashboard and navigate to Marketing & SEO > SEO Tools > URL Redirect Manager.
• Click Add Redirect and enter the broken URL in the Old URL field and the most relevant live page URL in the New URL field. Set the type to 301 and click Save.
• For any 404 URLs that were internal links (pages linking to a deleted page), open the Wix Editor and find the pages containing those broken links using the Wix Site Inspector or a crawl tool like Screaming Frog.
• In the Wix Editor, update or remove each internal link pointing to the deleted page.
• After fixing all redirects and internal links, return to Google Search Console > URL Inspection and request indexing for the pages that contained the broken links.
• Monitor the Wix Bot Traffic Response Status report for the following 30 days to confirm the 404 count returns to a low baseline level.