At a glance
Ranking by Page Type is a grouped-bar view of your Google Search Console average position broken down by page template: home, category, product, blog and other. It shows which kinds of pages carry your organic visibility, so SEO and content teams can tell at a glance whether category pages, product pages or editorial content are pulling their weight in search, and where a template-level fix would move the most ground.
What it tracks
The detail backing this card is “Ranking by Page Type for the selected period.” We pull landing pages and their impression-weighted average position from the Search Console Search Analytics API (searchanalytics.query with the page dimension) for the chosen date range, classify each URL into a page-type bucket using URL-path patterns (for example /products/ or /p/ for product, /collections/ or /category/ for category, /blog/ or /articles/ for editorial, the root for home), then plot the average position per bucket as grouped bars. A strong blog bar with a weak product bar, for instance, says your content earns rankings your commercial pages do not, a classic signal to improve product-page SEO. Because this is template-level, a single bar moving usually points at one fixable cause (a layout change, an internal-linking shift, an indexing issue). The card carries no time-window badge or alert; scope it to the dashboard date range and read it with the page-performance siblings.