# Read Search Console performance by country

> Tier: recipe. Operating recipe: real tool sequence, core rules, known traps.

Country cuts on search analytics, hreflang sanity included.

**Intent.** Organic market map: where search brings whom.

## When to use

- International sites.
- Before market content investments.

## When not to use

- No specific contraindication beyond the preconditions below.

## Sources

Required: Search Console

## Preconditions

- The account is ticked in the dashboard, confirmed via list_accounts.

## Inputs

- `window`: Analysis window. Default: last 30 days.

## Procedure

1. Query by country. — tools: `gsc_query_search_analytics`
2. Check that markets land on their language versions. — tools: `gsc_inspect_url`

## Decision rules

- **When** A market's traffic lands on the wrong language version → **conclude** hreflang or canonical problem: name the pairs, it outranks any content plan for that market.

## Evidence requirements

- Every figure carries its account, metric and window.
- Anything below a readable sample size is reported as unjudged, not as zero.

## Human approval boundary

- The readout changes nothing. Any change it motivates goes through Safe Writes: preview, human confirmation, then apply.

## Failure modes

- Search behaviour differs per market: CTR benchmarks do not travel.

## Output

- **Readout**: The figures, with windows and accounts named.
- **Flags**: What deserves a deeper skill or a human decision.