The dashboard shows you at a glance how your analyzed pages are doing, how the scores are developing and where there's still something to do.
What is the dashboard for?
Every analysis you run with your account (see Page Audit) is saved, and the dashboard evaluates those analyses. It answers four questions:
- How is my page doing overall? Averages and rating levels
- Is it getting better? Score history over time
- What is left to do? Number of open recommendations
- Which page needs attention? Table of all tracked pages
Open it via Dashboard in the navigation. You can't get in without signing in, you end up at the login instead.
No analyses yet?
If you haven't saved anything yet, the dashboard says "No analyses yet". "Analyze a page now" takes you straight to the analysis form.
The metrics
The most important figures are right at the top:
| Metric | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Total analyses | All saved analyses of your account |
| Tracked pages | Number of different pages (domains) you have analyzed |
| Avg. PageSpeed score | Average loading performance according to Google |
| Avg. Meta score | Average for title, description and other meta data |
| Avg. page quality | Average of content and technical quality |
| Open recommendations | Critical problems and improvement suggestions that are still open |
| Last analysis | Time of your last analysis |
Average scores
The three scores (PageSpeed, Meta, page quality) are shown as bars with a mark at 90. From there on a score counts as good.
Below that is the change from the previous analysis, so you can quickly see whether your latest measures did anything.
Pages by rating
This card sorts your pages into three levels:
| Level | Range |
|---|---|
| Good | 90 and above |
| Medium | 70 to 89 |
| Weak | below 70 |
A page lands in the level of its weakest metric. That's on purpose: with PageSpeed 95, Meta 92 and quality 55 a page isn't "good", it has a quality problem. An average would hide exactly that.
The limits match the score colors in the table below.
Score history
The chart shows for one page how PageSpeed, Meta and page quality have changed over time.
- Choose the domain via "Select page"
- Every point in the history is an analysis
- Compare jumps with what you changed, for example after a relaunch or an image optimization
The page you analyzed most recently is preselected.
Your tracked pages
The table shows every page with its current status:
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Domain | The analyzed page |
| Last check | When it was last analyzed |
| PageSpeed, Meta, Quality | Scores of the latest analysis, colored by level |
| Open | Open recommendations |
| Analyses | How often the page has been analyzed |
A click on a row opens the detail view of the latest analysis with all recommendations. That's where you work through the measures (see Page Audit). Pages with the newest analyses are at the top.
Sitemap notice
If you've used the crawler, the dashboard also shows how your sitemap.xml is doing:
- "Your sitemap.xml is error-free": everything is fine
- "n problem(s) in your sitemap.xml": the crawl found faulty entries
- "Your sitemap.xml is unreachable": the file cannot be retrieved
"Open sitemap report" leads straight to the crawler report. The time shown is that of the last crawl.
Working with the dashboard
Look in once a week and see which pages are "Weak". Start with the page that has the most open recommendations and deal with the critical problems first, then the improvements. After that you analyze the page again: "Open" drops, the score rises. Later, the history shows whether the change lasted.
Frequently asked questions
Why is a page missing from the dashboard?
Only analyses you made while signed in count. The dashboard can't assign analyses made without an account.
Why is the PageSpeed score missing for a page?
The PageSpeed value is measured at Google and sometimes arrives a bit later. Or Google couldn't evaluate the page. Just analyze it again then.
What does "Open" mean?
It's the sum of critical problems and improvement suggestions from the latest analysis. Passed checks aren't included.
How many analyses does the dashboard take into account?
At most 500 analyses of your account. If you've saved more, not all of them make it into the evaluation.
Is there an overall grade?
No, and that's intentional. There are three separate scores instead of one overall grade, because an overall grade would hide weak values.