How your analysis zones work
Zones become the tabs you navigate the Portfolio by, and they schedule which parts of your site get deep analysis. GrowthX builds them; you decide how the site divides.
App route: /admin/site_sync/analysis_zones
Zones become the tabs across the top of the Pages Portfolio, so the way the site is divided here is the way you navigate it every day. That's the reason to care about this screen even though it's read-only for your team.
Their other job is scheduling: zones decide which parts of your site get deep analysis and how often. GrowthX creates the zones, sets their frequency, and runs them. Your input is the judgement call underneath: how you want to read your site. When the tabs don't match how you think about it, tell your GrowthX team what the four or five groupings should be.
Doing this rather than looking it up? The Tutorial covers your side of the decision in 2.2 · Choose your zones.
Reference
| Column | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Name | What the zone is called: the label that appears as a Portfolio tab. Rule-based zones carry an Auto badge here |
| Definition | The URL pattern, the rule text (Top 50 pages by sessions), or Manually selected pages |
| Pages | How many pages currently match |
| Frequency | Daily, Weekly or Monthly: with (N sampled) appended when the zone is sampled rather than run whole |
| Analysis | What analysis runs: see the caveat below |
| Last run | When it last completed |
The header shows total pages in the workspace, which is the number your zone page-counts should be read against.
Frequency is elapsed time, not a calendar. Weekly means "at least seven days since this zone last ran", not "every Monday". So a zone whose last run is six days old on a weekly cadence isn't late, and a fresh result may land any time after the period elapses.
Zones can overlap, and a page can match more than one.
Auto rules keep working as the site changes. A Top 50 by sessions zone always covers your most valuable pages, including ones that didn't exist when it was created. Pattern zones only cover what the pattern matches, which is exactly right for structural sections and wrong for "the important stuff."
What "Analysis" actually runs
Every zone runs three analyses: health (the technical audit), keywords, and search intent: and quality scoring cascades off the intent leg. There is no per-zone toggle in the UI; the column is informational.
Known issue
The Analysis column reads Health on every row today. That is a display
bug, not the behaviour: the column checks for an analysis key named serp that
was renamed to keywords on the backend, so the keywords and intent legs never
render. All three analyses do run. A fix is tracked; read the column as
under-reporting until it lands.
Last updated at October 20, 2018