We’re all constantly trying to climb to the top of a Google search
results page! Well here is a great hint that may help you climb search
results a little faster.
Recently Google rep Matt Cutts
suggested that page load times / speed of your website will affect your
site position in Google. This hint is in line with other news the
Google plan to “speed up the internet”.
Previously Google has not factored page load time into the algorithm, although it does make a great deal of sense considering Google’s all about the end user experience. Who wants to be sent to a slow loading website, the quicker the better!
Matt suggested that we should all start paying attention to the tools and other resources found on http://code.google.com/speed a variety of plug-ins and external tools aimed to help optimize your web pages for speed.
At the end of the day what does this mean for your web pages?
It means start optimizing images, cleaning your code, compressing java script etc..
Although this can be seen as just adding to the work load of SEO’rs.. quicker page load for your visitors means a much happier consumer which will have a knock on effect for sales, consumer engagement and enjoyment.
Join the Google Speed Web Revolution, and let’s speed things up!
Just get rid of those unnecessary scripts and your site will run fast
This is very good and also bad new for site owner. i think those site are taking loading time more, their site will effect on ranking. Can you tell me how much loading time is necessary for a website.
Interesting article. Thank you. I installed Firebug and Page Speed. I am now searching to enable gZIP and caching some files. The remaining parts seem to be ok.
Thanks !
That’s mean now hosting will also play very important role in SEO?
Also, incorporating a caching system within your website is a must to boost up web speed about 80%. To optimize your WordPress blog, I recommend reading this http://www.mooladays.com/2009/12/05/22-ways-to-optimize-wordpress-to-load-even-faster/
Hosting has always played some role in SEO though since now speed is soon to be come a factor, yes even more so. That said the coding of the pages is of utmost importance, this will help speed your site up.
I have a tourist website. I had more images in my website so obviously it will take more time to load the page.
Is this any affective i will get my site page rank?
Thanks
Keralatourntravel
Its about time google filtered out the heavy loading website’s and is making way for the text / content rich website’s with value.
Just my thoughts!
Photo blogs need to present images. It is a necessity to show the images and thus a big challenge to comply to Google speed ranking.
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