Reports at a Glance
The reporting tool acts as a summary to track your site’s health, clicks, and an overview of the page. This also serves as a performance report. “Data includes clicks, impressions, CTR, and position for your site, as well as query strings that users were searching for”. By getting the full breakdown of your site the report allows you to analyze any issues or errors that might be accruing. Specifically when it comes to crawl stats, link issues, and issues with security. Report tools in GSC serve as a big picture of your site and offer a full overview.
Legacy Tools
These tools and reports are a smaller yet crucial set of tools. This includes robots.txt testers, URL parameter tools, international targeting, data highlighting, message reports, crawl rate settings, and web tools. These tools are essential, yet slightly outdated which is why Google is looking for replacements. The significance of legacy tools is that it allows for more experience reports and microdata testing. This tool has intrinsic value and is key to recognizing and understanding how they work with others.
Importance
Both legacy tools and report tools are crucial when it comes to creating a successful user experience. They combine the macro and micro data that can be gathered and analyzed to understand where your traffic is coming from and how you can utilize it. Before GSC can eliminate legacy tools they must find a better replacement for them. This replacement must contain the valuable assets legacy tools offer but in a quicker and more in-depth sense. Replacing legacy tools with a move adaptive and conjoined function will increase the quality of information report tools have to offer. In summary, legacy tools work with report tools to give sites a better course of action and help websites pinpoint opportunities for growth.