Have just noticed a new feature in Google Webmasters Tools today, and it seems to be quite helpful than others it's called Site performance and location under the Labs menu: Site performance What's your opinion about it ? Update: I've been playing with it a little bit and noticed it also shows login protected pages as well !!? like: /admin/content/ etc...
It say for my site: "On average, pages in your site take 2.8 seconds to load". Pretty good update, any additional things added to the google webmasters is a bonus for me.
That's a great addition indeed! Especially with Google putting more and more emphasiz on sites' load times when considering how to rank them.
Nice addition once again from Google... Also good to see a few suggestions about how to speed up pages.. Although PageSpeed gives a more detailed list of things. A few of my results.. My only blogger hosted site is the slowest. The rest are hosted on my own servers. Will aim at getting them quicker. Cheers James
Kind of interesting little chart they have there. Hadn't noticed this until you posted this. Nothing spectacular but nice to see they are always trying to make more statistics available in webmaster tools.
These statistics are a warning from google.. Get those numbers down before Caffeine. Google has already stated that load time has effects on your rankings in Caffeine.
To everyone that said its Site Speed is hype and they will never penalize for slow hosts,.... you may want to think again.... thx M1
Barre, I've heard that 'loading time' MIGHT be a ranking factor in 2010.. I would love to take a look at your news source if it's okay ? Agree with malcolm1 about the penalty issue, but it make sense to increase ranking based on site loading time which might affect crawling and indexing as well What do you think guys ?
Appreciated, check the link below for more information in a post by Search Engine Land about the subject: Site Speed, Google’s Next Ranking Factor
Sure.. Mike Mcdonald broke the story (web pro news) Barry Wote about it ( the video is in the article.) http://searchengineland.com/site-speed-googles-next-ranking-factor-29793 I listened....