To begin working with SpeedWorkers, learn how to:

Access the SpeedWorkers service through the main navigation bar: Activation > SpeedWorkers.

SpeedWorkers is organized into the following pages:

The SpeedWorkers Overview page is the landing page for the service, providing high-level insight into key metrics. These metrics help you determine if search bots are seeing your strategic pages and give you insight into how to improve performance. Each metric is presented on a card that contains a link to more information.

The SpeedWorkers Overview page allows you to monitor SpeedWorkers technical KPIs and shows you a snapshot of how SpeedWorkers is performing. The Overview page includes four key metrics:

The Delivery Efficiency Over Time metric shows the percentage of search bot hits served by SpeedWorkers. Delivery efficiency is the ratio defining the percentage of bot requests that hit a cached page version vs requests redirected to the origin servers. A decreasing ratio may indicate an issue with the inventory or a bottleneck in the rendering process. The Delivery Efficiency Over Time metric summarizes the metrics available on the Delivery Center page.

The Delivery Efficiency metric only applies to the “in scope” pages, as defined in SpeedWorkers inventory settings. All blocked patterns do not count against the delivery efficiency since they are not considered hits.

The Refresh Efficiency Over Time metric shows how efficiently search engines index up-to-date pages. Refresh efficiency is the ratio defining the percentage of pages delivered to search engines from the SpeedWorkers cache while being up-to-date (as opposed to outdated or expired). Cache behaviors allow you to keep serving outdated page versions to bots in case of a bottleneck in the rendering process. While that is better than delivering no page, refresh efficiency should remain as high as possible. The Refresh Efficiency Over Time metric summarizes the metrics available on the Delivery Center page.

The Fetch Speed Over Time metric shows how frequently SpeedWorkers has been refreshing pages from your origin servers. Average fetch speed is the average volume of pages crawled every second. The Fetch Speed Over Time metric summarizes the metrics available on the Inventory Monitoring page.

Enable the "Max. Refresh Speed" option on the Fetch Speed Over Time chart to overlay the current maximum refresh speed setting. If the Average Refresh Speed is significantly below the Max Refresh Speed, SpeedWorkers has enough capacity to refresh all pages in the inventory. If the Average Refresh Speed is consistently close to the Max Refresh Speed, then SpeedWorkers is near or at the maximum capacity, meaning some pages in the inventory may not be refreshed. Please contact your SEO Success Manager if you need to update this setting.

The Max Refresh Speed option on this chart always displays the current maximum speed; therefore, if this setting changes, the line will represent the new maximum speed, even if the chart reports the previous period.

The Render Quality Over Time metric shows whether cached pages passed the quality controls you have defined in the SpeedWorkers settings. Render quality is the ratio of pages passing quality controls while being rendered. These quality controls ensure your strategic pages are properly rendered before being delivered. The Render Quality Over Time metric summarizes the metrics available on the Render Quality page.
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