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The new Google Search Console 2018 interface

You have verified your site on search console. That’s fine, it’s likely that you have received a link in the last few days to see “the new interface, the new version”

Keep this link, a great tool is already integrated which by filtering reveals the queries (and especially their variants) that display your site in the results even if no click has been made.

Sleek interface, very user-friendly, it borders on the toy. A good use of this information should encourage you to enrich your writing of texts by going in the right direction.

Go to this address while logged in to your https://search.google.com/search-console account and choose the one of your sites you want to consult in the top field

Access to this link is not yet facilitated, (it is absent from the current version). it seems that Google doesn’t want maximum traffic to begin with. Take advantage of it now

New Search Console beta experience

Performance Reporting

The report shows important statistics about how your site is performing in Google Search results: how often it appears, its average position in search results, click-through rate, and any special features (such as rich results) associated with your results.

Use this information to improve search conversions for your site. Like what:

How to read the report

The default view of the report shows the number of clicks on your pages in Google Search results for the last three months.

 

Read the table

The chart shows the total number of clicks, the total number of impressions, the average CTR (click-through rate), and the average position of your entire site. All the data in the graph is grouped by site. See the “Understanding statistics” section for explanations of these types of metrics and how they are calculated.

The table displays the data grouped by the selected tab. Click a grouping tab to change how they are grouped. Here’s more information about each type of group:

Requests

Group results based on the query strings that people searched for on Google. Only the searches that resulted in your site being displayed are included in the report. Rare queries are not included in these results, to protect the privacy of the user making the request.

Common Uses:

Pages

Group results based on the individual pages of your property that have shown up in search results. Grouping by page will provide data by page rather than by site in the table only. The data in the graph will always be grouped by site.

Country

Group the results according to the country of origin of the research, for example Canada or Mexico.

Note that the country filter is limited to the top 20 countries that drive traffic to your property. If you need to filter by a country that isn’t in the drop-down list, group your query by country and click the row for the country you want. This allows you to filter the results by country.

Devices

Group the results based on the device that searched, such as a computer, tablet, or mobile. If you have a different site for mobile and desktop, such as m.example.com and www.example.com, the statistics for each site will be displayed in a separate report for each property.

If you don’t have a separate mobile version of your website, such as dynamically identifying the user agent and adjusting your site’s layout accordingly, you’ll need to aggregate your data by device to compare mobile clicks and impressions with user clicks, impressions.

Type of research

Filter or compare data based on the type of search the user makes on Google: web search (the default search results), image search, video search, etc.

This is because the layout of the results page is very different depending on the type of search.

For example, if the 30th position in the image search results can match the first page of results, in web search, that same position can match the third page.

Data is stored separately by search type

URL position, clicks, and impressions data is stored separately for each search type. For example, an image can appear in both web search and image search results, but the image’s position, clicks, and impressions data are recorded separately for web searches and image searches.

As an example, for an image hosted on page example.com/aboutme.html, you might have this data:

Understanding the statistics

The following statistics are available:

Impressions are counted when the user visits that results page, even if they don’t scroll down to make the result visible. However, if a user only visits page 1 but the result is on page 2, the impression is not counted.

The figures are grouped by site or page. Note that on result pages that can be scrolled indefinitely, such as image search, it may be necessary for the item to be visible on the screen in order for it to be counted as an impression. Learn more

Filter your data

You can filter the data by several dimensions. For example, if you group data by query, you can add the filters “country=’France’ AND device=’Mobile'”.

To add a filter:

To remove a filter:

The country filtering menu is limited to the top 20 countries that drive traffic to your site. To filter by a country that isn’t listed, group the results by country, then click the row for the country you want to use as a filter.

Compare data trends

You can compare data from two exact values of the same grouping dimension, regardless of whether it is the grouping selected at the time. For example, when data is grouped by query, you can compare clicks from the current week and last week, or clicks from the United States and France. Comparing by page or appearance in search results can change how CTR, impressions, and clicks metrics are calculated. When you compare the values of a single metric, the results table displays a difference column to compare the values in each row.

Some useful comparisons:

You can only compare data from one dimension at a time (dates, queries, and so on). Adding a new comparison in another grouping dimension will delete the existing comparison. For example, if you compare clicks from this week and last week (date), and then add a comparison between the United States and Japan (country), the date range is reset to its default value.

If you are comparing two groups and a value is very rare in one group but not in the other, the group with the rare value will display the ~ character for that line, to indicate that the digit is not available. For example, if you compare query impressions between Germany and Thailand, the result row for “Deutsche Bundesbank” will likely show an impression count for Germany, and a ~ (not available) for Thailand. This is because the number of impressions for Thailand is at the end of a very long list of results. This does not mean that there is no printing, but this number appears at the very bottom of the list for this group. However, if you filter by the rare value (in this example “Deutsche Bundesbank”), you should see data values for both dimensions.

About the data

The data for each property is treated separately during the search analysis. In other words, we distinguish between data for the following destinations:

How are clicks, impressions, and position calculated?

Learn more about calculating clicks, impressions, and position here.

Data discrepancies

Search Console data may be slightly different from data displayed in other tools. The following reasons may explain these differences:

Group data by site or page

All the data in the graph is grouped by site. All data in the table is grouped by site, except when grouped by page or appearance on the site.

When grouping data by site, the site to which the data matches is the true target of the search results link, which may be different from the URL displayed based on the omission behavior of our systems’ redirects.

search results

In Google Statistics grouped by site Statistics grouped by page
1. www.animalerie.example.com/singes

2. www.petstore.example.com/ponies

3. www.petstore.example.com/unicorns

Click-through rate: 100%
All clicks for a site are combined.
Click-through rate: 33%
3 pages viewed, 1/3 clicks for each page
Average position: 1
Best position of the site in the results
Average position: 2

 

 

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