Quality Metrics Overview
Understanding Your Website's Health
Quality metrics are like a comprehensive health checkup for your website - they give you a complete picture of how well your site is performing across all the important areas that matter for user experience and search engine success. These metrics help you identify strengths to build on and areas that need improvement.
What Quality Metrics Tell You
Quality metrics measure your website across four key areas: performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices. Each area is crucial for creating a successful website that serves your visitors well and ranks well in search results.
Performance metrics tell you how fast your website loads and how smoothly it runs. Accessibility metrics ensure your site can be used by people with disabilities. SEO metrics measure how well search engines can find and understand your content. Best practices metrics check if you're following modern web development standards.
Understanding Your Scores
Each quality category gets a score from 0 to 100, with color-coded indicators that make it easy to see how you're doing at a glance. Green scores indicate good performance, yellow scores suggest there's room for improvement, and red scores highlight areas that need immediate attention.
These scores are based on industry standards and best practices, so they give you a reliable benchmark for measuring your website's quality against what users and search engines expect.
Digging Deeper into the Details
Beyond the overall scores, you can dive deeper into each category to see exactly what's contributing to your performance. This detailed breakdown helps you understand not just that there's an issue, but specifically what's causing it and how to fix it.
Using Metrics for Decision Making
Quality metrics should guide your development and optimization decisions. If your performance score is low, you might focus on optimizing images and code. If accessibility is an issue, you might prioritize making your site more usable for people with disabilities.
These metrics help you make data-driven decisions about where to invest your time and resources for maximum impact. They ensure you're focusing on the improvements that will have the biggest positive effect on your website's success.
How to Access and Use Quality Metrics
- Access quality metrics by navigating to Project > Quality in the sidebar
- Review the overall score at the top of the quality page
- Examine individual categories - Performance, Accessibility, SEO, and Best Practices