PageRank Distribution Removed From WMT Report abuse

abwebdesign1
Level 2
10/13/09
I was doing my daily perusing of our client sites in Webmaster Tools, and I noticed something interesting...

The PageRank distribution feature, once found on the crawl stats section under "Diagnostics," is no longer displayed.

Is this a permanent change?

Perhaps public PR is finally going to be dumped?

What say you?

Susan Moskwa
Google Employee
10/15/09
Best answer - Susan Moskwa (Google Employee)
We've been telling people for a long time that they shouldn't focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think it's the most important metric for them to track, which is simply not true. We removed it because we felt it was silly to tell people not to think about it, but then to show them the data, implying that they should look at it. :-)

More details on why not to obsess over PageRank here:
http://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelp...anking#pagerank