Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Webmaster Tools added lots of new functionality over the past year, such as improvements to
Sitemaps and
Crawl errors, as well as the new
User Administration
feature. In recent weeks, we also updated the look and feel of our user interface to match
Google’s new style. In order to keep bringing you improvements, we occasionally review each of our
features to see if they’re still useful in comparison to the maintenance and support they require.
As a result of our latest round of spring cleaning, we’ll be removing the Subscriber stats
feature, the Create robots.txt tool, and the Site performance feature in the next two weeks.
Subscriber stats reports the number of subscribers to a site’s RSS or Atom feeds. This
functionality is currently provided in Feedburner, another Google product which offers its own
subscriber stats as well as other cool features specifically geared for
feeds
of all types. If you are looking for a replacement to Subscriber stats in Webmaster Tools, check
out
Feedburner.
The Create robots.txt tool provides a way to generate
robots.txt files for the purpose of blocking
specific parts of a site from being crawled by Googlebot. This feature has very low usage, so
we’ve decided to remove it from Webmaster Tools. While many websites don’t even need a robots.txt
file, if you feel that you do need one, it’s easy to make one yourself in a text editor or use one
of the many other tools available on the web for generating robots.txt files.
Site performance is a
Webmaster Tools Labs
feature that provides information about the average load time of your site’s pages. This feature
is also being removed due to low usage. Now you might have heard our announcement from a couple of
years ago that the latency of a site’s pages is a
factor in our search ranking algorithms.
This is still true, and you can analyze your site’s performance using the
Site Speed
feature in Google Analytics or using Google’s
PageSpeed online. There are also
many other site performance analysis tools available like
WebPageTest and the
YSlow browser plugin.
If you have questions or comments about these changes please post them in our
Help Forum.
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