The inspection cycle is a unique metric found only in Indexing Insight.
Indexing Insight is the only tool that lets you understand how long it takes to inspect your indexing data. So you know if our tool is the right fit for your company.
What is the inspection cycle?
The inspection cycle is the maximum number of days to monitor all your important pages with Google’s URL Inspection API.
The inspection cycle is used to track:
Project - The max days it would take to monitor all the pages in a project.
Web Property - The max days to monitor the pages in a web property.
How can you use the inspection cycle?
Understanding how long it will take to monitor Google indexing for all your pages is important.
After testing the data, we found that the longer it takes to inspect a page, the less accurate the index state of each page. This inaccuracy can cause teams to make the wrong decision.
This is because indexing is a continuous process that constantly changes.
To improve the accuracy of your data, we recommend keeping the inspection cycle for your web properties between 1 and 30 days.
How is the inspection cycle calculated?
The inspection cycle is a relatively simple metric to calculate.
Total URLs mapped to a web property / web property limits = No. of Days
For example, you can easily calculate the inspection cycle of each web property if we take our test website and break it down by no. the URLs and the daily limit for each web property.
Web Property | URLs | Daily limit | Inspection Cycle |
232 | 2,000 | 1 | |
111 | 2,000 | 1 | |
21,316 | 2,000 | 12 |
However, our tool can maximise your website's API limits and reduce the time it takes to monitor your pages by 3x times.
So, what would normally take 12 days now only take Indexing Insight 4 days.
Web Property | URLs | Daily limit | Inspection Cycle |
232 | 2,000 | 1 | |
111 | 2,000 | 1 | |
21,316 | 2,000 | 4 |
This is what it looks like in the tool:
Our tool always rounds up when calculating the inspection cycle for your project and web properties.