lucy24 - 9:06 pm on May 8, 2012 (gmt 0)

Google could use some usability consultation.

I just came over here to complain that they've changed the blasted dashboard AGAIN :)

... and this time around it's set up so I have to open my window to 1200 px just to see the whole thing. (Hello? Google? Ever hear of {display: inline-block;}? Works nicely for dynamic resizing. Try it. You'll like it.)

I am especially struck by the URL errors listing so-and-so-many "Not Found" ... without a link to the Crawl Errors page.

List along left: Configuration / Health / Traffic / Optimization / Labs. Ooh, good work, two brand-new categories of information that give no idea what they're about. Who would guess that "Crawl Stats" is an aspect of Health while Sitemaps is under Optimization? And gosh, I wish they'd give some hint which URL on my current Sitemap is not indexed. The numbers differ by exactly one.

Hm, I see +1 is now a subcategory under Traffic rather than a top-level category in its own right. Dare I hope that means it's on its way out?

Quick edit:
OK, I take it back. They do know about "inline-block", because I went to investigate a missing line break:

<h2 class="header-container goog-inline-block"><span class="header-title goog-inline-block">HTML Improvements</span>
<span class="header-subtitle goog-inline-block"><span class="timestamp">Last updated May 7, 2012 </span></span></h2>We didn&#39;t detect any content issues with your site.

See elsewhere under "Do as we say, not as we do."