Overview report
The Overview report of the VitalSentinel SEO Extension shows the status, indexability, Core Web Vitals, main issues and recent changes of the page that you have open.
The Overview report is the first report that the popup opens. It gives a summary of the page and lists the issues that need your attention. Each issue links to the report that has the details.
Before you start
- Open an
httporhttpspage and click the VitalSentinel icon. - If the page was open before you installed the extension, reload it first. Otherwise the extension has no record of the status and the redirects.
Page summary
Below the title, the report shows the address of the page and a row of chips:
- The HTTP status, for example 200 OK. Green is 2xx, amber is 3xx and red is 4xx or 5xx.
- Indexable or Not indexable. See Indexability.
- The number of redirects, if the address redirected.
- The language of the page, or No lang attribute.
- The number of words.
- The load time and the transferred size of the page.
If you are signed in and the site is monitored, the button Watch this page shows at the top right. See VitalSentinel tab.
Core Web Vitals
Three cards show LCP, INP and CLS for this page load, measured on your device. Each card shows the rating Good, Needs improvement or Poor. The INP card shows "Interact with the page first" until you click, tap or type on the page. Click Performance to see all the measurements.
If you are signed in and the site is monitored, each card also shows CrUX data. This is the latest 75th percentile value of real Chrome users on phones. The big number is your page load, and the small number below it is the CrUX value.
If you are not signed in, the report shows the offer Free CrUX data for the site. Click Test on PageSpeed Insights to run a Google test of the page in a new tab.
The ratings use the same limits as VitalSentinel. See Metrics and thresholds.
Monitored in VitalSentinel
If you are signed in and the site is monitored, the card Monitored in VitalSentinel · Last 90 days shows three values:
| Cell | What it shows | Click to open |
|---|---|---|
| Google Search Console | Clicks, impressions and average position | Content |
| Google index | Indexed or Not indexed, and the last crawl date | Indexability |
| Web Analytics | Page views and bounce rate | The VitalSentinel tab |
Needs attention
The Needs attention list shows the errors and the warnings from these reports: Indexability, Content, Images, Social tags and HTTP headers. Errors come first. Each row names the report that has the details. Click a row to open that report.
If there is no issue, the report says "Nothing needs attention on this page."
Changed since your last visit
The extension keeps a short summary of each page that you open. When you open the same address again, the section Changed since your last visit compares the page with the summary. It shows the old value crossed out and the new value below it.
The extension compares these fields: title, meta description, canonical, robots directives, H1, word count, structured data types, hreflang entries, links and HTTP status. The Unchanged row lists the main fields that did not change. If nothing changed, the section says "Nothing SEO-relevant changed."
The summaries stay in your browser for 30 days. The extension does not keep summaries for incognito tabs. To turn off the history or to clear it, see Settings.
Crawl
| Row | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Status | The HTTP status. "From the page, reload to record" means that the extension read the status from the page itself |
| Redirects | The number of redirect hops and their status codes, or None |
| robots.txt | If robots.txt allows or blocks the page for Googlebot, with the blocking rule |
| Meta robots | The robots directives, or "Not set (index, follow)" |
| Sitemaps | The number of sitemaps that robots.txt declares |
Page
| Row | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Title | The title and its length. The extension recommends 30 to 60 characters |
| Description | The meta description and its length. The extension recommends 70 to 160 characters |
| Canonical | Self-referencing, "This page without its tracking parameters", or the other address |
| H1 | The first H1 heading. A warning shows if the page has more than one H1 |
| Structured data | The structured data types on the page |
If you are not signed in, the bottom of the report offers to monitor the site with VitalSentinel. Click Start monitoring to add the domain in the app.
Related
- On-page reports - content, structured data, social tags and images
- Crawl and index reports - indexability, crawlers and links
- Performance - all the speed measurements
Sign in
Link the VitalSentinel SEO Extension to your VitalSentinel account to see CrUX, Google Search Console, Google index and Web Analytics data for the pages that you monitor.
On-page reports
The On-page group of the VitalSentinel SEO Extension checks the content, structured data, social tags and images of the page that you have open.
