Tracking quality indicators

Quality indicators show you how useful the site is for users. You can:

• Track dynamic trends in the SQI and received badges, as well as compare your site's data with data for other sites.
• Track achievements that affect the quality of the site, including problems on the site.
• Get recommendations for further development of the site.

To view this information, add the site to Yandex Webmaster and verify your rights to manage the site. If the site has a subdomain, the Quality indicators page shows generalized data is displayed for all the site's URLs.

Changes to the site quality index (SQI)

The chart shows dynamic trends in your site's SQI. You can also see the SQI of other sites if you add them to the comparison list.

To view your site's SQI over a certain period, set the date range. SQI for other sites is displayed starting from November 20, 2019.

Compare your website with other sites

You can compare your site with others based on indicators that show the site dynamics in your business niche:

• Indicator X.

• Store’s rating in the product search. Store rating shows how satisfied customers are with its work.

• Availability of an existing organization in Yandex Business. Data about the organization added to Yandex Business is displayed in the Yandex search results, on Yandex Maps and in other services.

• Site rating. Grades 1-3 are considered bad, 4 and 5 are considered good. When rating a site, a user may leave a review about it. Ratings can be displayed on the Quality indicators page if there are more than 10 site reviews.

• Progress in getting badges. Some badges may already be assigned. A label is displayed for them. For other badges, there is a progress bar showing the site's current progress towards obtaining the badge. The label may be gray if there is not enough data to confirm it. Some badges may not be displayed if they haven't been awarded yet.

  Note

  The badges available and the site progress to receive the badges may differ from country to country.

To compare indicators, click Add site. You can add up to 20 sites.

To remove a site from the comparison, hover over the line with the desired site and click the icon to the left of the site URL.

Achievements with the site

Go to Achievements and statistics to track your progress in promoting the site. For example, you can track errors on the site and monitor the status of important pages.

Recommendations

Yandex Webmaster offers recommendations that can help your website attract more users and keep them happier.

Video playback quality

This recommendation is displayed if you're a partner of Yandex video search. The indicator informs you about how well video playback is implemented on your site. If the algorithm determines that the content and its playback meet the requirements, the videos may have a distinctive look in search results. When Yandex finds a video matching the search query on multiple resources, the sources may be grouped. The top position in the group is occupied by a video that satisfies these requirements:

• The video is displayed using the embed (iframe) technology, that is, it can be played without visiting the source site.
• The video has a moderate number of ads.
• The video can be played on all popular devices and in all popular operating systems and browsers.
• The player interface is user-friendly.

If there are multiple fitting resources, the algorithm picks one of them for display randomly.

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