Analytics and Monitoring

Blog discovery monitoring.

A repeatable operating view for indexing, traffic source quality, per-post search performance, image discovery, and Core Web Vitals.

Discovery properties

Canonical site

Sitemap index

Blog feed

Manual account step

Verify the https://helmforge.dev/ URL-prefix property.
Submit https://helmforge.dev/sitemap-index.xml in the Sitemaps report.
Inspect new blog URLs after deploy and monitor indexing status.
Review Search results, Discover, Google News, Images, and Core Web Vitals reports when data is available.

Manual account step

Verify https://helmforge.dev/ or import verification from Google Search Console.
Submit https://helmforge.dev/sitemap-index.xml.
Review IndexNow insights, Index Coverage, URL Inspection, and SEO reports.
Confirm Microsoft Start/Bing traffic is segmented in analytics reports.

Repository configured

GA4 measurement ID can be overridden with PUBLIC_GA_MEASUREMENT_ID.
Search verification meta tags can be injected with PUBLIC_GOOGLE_SITE_VERIFICATION and PUBLIC_BING_SITE_VERIFICATION.
Core Web Vitals are sent as GA4 events with page path and content group.
The blog performance report template tracks per-post source and search metrics.

Cadence	Owner	Focus
Weekly	Maintainer	New and updated posts, indexing status, sitemap processing, IndexNow delivery, top queries.
Monthly	Maintainer	CTR trends, Discover eligibility signals, Core Web Vitals, image indexing, source mix.
After each blog deploy	Release owner	Sitemap availability, IndexNow submission logs, RSS freshness, canonical URL reachability.

Google Search

Google Discover

Google News surfaces

Bing

Microsoft Start

Social shares

RSS

Direct and referrals

Clicks

Impressions

CTR

Average position

Discover clicks

Bing clicks

RSS/social referrals

Largest Contentful Paint

Interaction to Next Paint

Cumulative Layout Shift