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January 2023 - GSC Metrics, User Search, Max GSC Properties Increase, New All Projects View and Health Scores in Monitor.

Andrew Levey
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Platform - Google Search Console Metrics

We’ve recently changed the way we calculate the number of clicks, impressions, CTR and positions from Google Search Console. Previously the totals were calculated from individual devices (e.g. number of total clicks equaled a sum on desktop, mobile and tablet clicks). Unfortunately the metrics per individual devices coming from Google Search Console are estimations, and the totals calculated using this method are not 100% accurate.

From now on we will therefore be getting the clicks, impressions, CTRs and positions metrics directly from Google Search Console as opposed to calculating them from individual devices, to improve the accuracy of data.

This change will affect the following metrics:

  • Search Console Total Clicks
  • Search Console Total Impressions
  • Search Console Total CTRs
  • Search Console Total Position

As well as the following reports:

  • Primary Pages in SERPs with Clicks
  • Primary Pages in SERPs without Clicks
  • Primary Pages in SERP
  • Primary Pages not in SERPs
  • Duplicate Pages in SERPs
  • Non-Indexable Pages in SERPs
  • Redirects in SERPs
  • Error Pages in SERPs
  • Primary Pages with 1 to 10 Clicks
  • Primary Pages with 10 to 100 Clicks
  • Primary Pages with 100 to 1000 Clicks
  • Primary Pages with 1000 to 10000 Clicks
  • Primary Pages with 10000 plus Clicks

As a result of this change, you should generally see more pages with clicks, and will benefit from more accurate data. We hope you will find this improvement useful and we welcome your feedback.

Platform - User Search

To make administrating Lumar easier, we’ve added the ability to search for a particular user in the ‘Team’ section of the admin area. Simply put the name you want to find in the search box and the list will refresh to filter only those that match your search term.

Screenshot of Lumar's admin area, showing the ability to search for users of the Lumar platform.

Platform - Maximum Search Console Properties Increase

Previously, you could have a maximum of 25 Search Console properties connected to a project. We’ve now increased this so you can pull data from a maximum of 50 Search Console properties.

Analyze - All Projects View

If you’ve logged in and thought that the ‘Draft Projects’ or ‘Active Projects’ icons had disappeared, you wouldn’t be wrong. But there’s no need to panic! When you click on the ‘All Projects’ icon, you’ll now see the option to switch between all projects, draft projects and active projects at the top. Aside from decluttering the icon list a bit, we thought it made more sense for ‘Draft Projects’ and ‘Active Projects’ to sit within ‘All Projects’ for a more logical layout.

Screenshot of Lumar Analyze showing the all projects view.

Monitor - Health Scores

Following the launch of our new Health Scores back in October, we’ve now added them to Monitor too. Now you can see the Overall Health Score, as well as scores for individual categories, across all your domains or important site sections, so you can quickly identify where you need to focus your attention.

Feedback

As always, we’re keen to hear your feedback to help us improve the Lumar platform. You can do this very easily by clicking on the smiley face in the bottom left-hand corner of any of our apps.

Animation of the feedback option in the bottom left corner of the Lumar platform, showing clicking on the smiling face, giving a rating and adding a comment.