Crawl Stats
Pages Crawled Per Day - This graph isn't super useful but it is nice to see how active Googlebots have been on your pages.
Kilobytes downloaded per day - Another graph that isn't super useful but again its nice to see how much information Googlebots have been downloading per day.
Time spending downloading a page (in milliseconds) - Even though the first two graphs aren't super helpful, I wouldn't of made this page if there wasn't something of value here! We definitely care about this one.
One of my sites here you can see has an average of 614 milliseconds. To give some perspective that is .614 seconds. Ideally it should be under 400 milliseconds. This is extremely important to keep an eye on this number. If your site is taking a while to load you will lose visitors. Think about your own browsing habits for a second. I know personally I’m pretty impatient and if a site doesn’t load immediately I'm gone.
Bottom line, if your load times are slow your user experience for your visitors is going to drastically decrease.
Check out https://website.grader.com/#/
You can type in your website and it will analyze your site for not only SEO but tell you how your load times are, then it will give you advice on how you can improve it. Pretty neat.
My best advice for quick loading times are not installing unknown plugins, make sure they are high quality by well known developers. As Kyle teaches us, we should keep our plugin number to a minimum, and additionally make sure you compress some of your photos to keep the size down. Even if you choose your size as medium on WordPress, the page still loads it in the full size you uploaded it as.
Next we cover SiteMaps!
Quick question, Does the email address used for site id and the email address of the Google account need to be the same?
I wanted to use the easy method, as I am not comfortable with adding code yet- know I can do it, but was just wanting to funnel the information from Google to another account.
Thank you,
Sami
My fault I'm sure.
"Make it Idiot Proof and somebody will make a better Idiot"
I am talking about me.