Googlebot Activity Reports at your Fingertips
A few days ago Google announced new versatility available in Sitemaps, see previous post.
Google is providing three different graphs to help you analyze your sites:
- Number of pages Googlebot has crawled on your domain or blog
- Average number of kilobytes downloaded from your domain, or blog, each day
- Average document download time
Each of these may not seem like much but,
The first two reports can help you diagnose the impact that changes in your site may have on its coverage. If you overhaul your site and dramatically reduce the number of pages, you’ll likely notice a drop in the number of pages that Googlebot accesses.
The average document download time can help pinpoint subtle networking problems. If the average time spikes, you might have network slowdowns or bottlenecks that you should investigate.
I am sure that more unique and useful tools are on the way. Keep it up Sitemaps Team!
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