Start here
Essential Website Evaluation Metrics for SEO
A short list of website metrics worth tracking for SEO, what each one tells you, and what it cannot tell you, so you can focus on a few useful numbers.
Audit and Measure
What to measure and which kinds of tool help.
Start here
A short list of website metrics worth tracking for SEO, what each one tells you, and what it cannot tell you, so you can focus on a few useful numbers.
Ten kinds of tool that help evaluate a website, from crawlers to speed testers and analytics, described by what they do so you can pick what fits your needs.
How to choose a few key performance indicators tied to your site's goal, such as visits, sign-ups or inquiries, and how to set a baseline before you change anything.
Define what success means for your type of site, then compare before and after an improvement carefully, with realistic expectations about timing and cause.
What impressions, clicks, click-through rate and average position mean in a search performance report, and how to read them without over-trusting the numbers.
Learn to read website metrics over time, tell real trends from random noise, and avoid drawing big conclusions from a single number or a single bad week.
Related topics