Google’s Webmasters Tools

October 28, 2006

Google Webmasters Tools, formerly Google sitemaps, is slowly building up some really useful utilities.

You can now checkout GoogleBot activity stats:

google's web masters tools

The above stats are from one of my sites and you can see that on average GoogleBot looks at the site 23 times a day. There are also stats that show how many kilobytes are downloaded by GoogleBot and the time spent downloading each page in milliseconds. You can see in the third graph that there is a real blip where the time that GoogleBot spent downloading pages on a certain day went up by about ten fold. This is likely to be a problem with my hosting company. Useful stats!

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