Need Advice On Website Loading Time

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by shaamblaze, Jan 30, 2013.

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    Hi Friends,

    I have started an travel website can you all please suggest me how much website loading time is best for seo

    Thanks
     
    shaamblaze, Jan 30, 2013 IP
  2. kam25

    kam25 Active Member

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    It is certainly true that websites that rank highly in the search engine load quickly — and are often commercially successful, because visitors don’t like to be kept waiting.

    There has been an increasing importance laid on the website loading time when it comes to user experience and its potential effect on a site’s Google search engine ranking. This is because Google is becoming serious in the campaign to load websites faster. Remember that in Google Webmaster Tools, a new section has recently been added: Dashboard – Labs – Site performance. It reports site performance in terms of average page load time.

    Not only that, but Google has acquired “Page Speed” ( http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/ ), a Firefox plug-in that will measure a website’s load speed in terms of “Page Speed Score,” a scale of 1-100.
    If you are serious about making your websites more user-friendly to both users and to Google, you should be looking for ways in improving the average page load time of your website. A slow-loading website delivers a poor user experience, and websites that provides poor experiences to visitors are less highly ranked by Google.

    Here are some recommendations:

    1. If your website’s average loading time (measured using the methodology discussed in the earlier section) is between 9.82 seconds and 13.84 seconds, then your website URL loading speed is on the “average.” You may or may not improve further as you wish.

    2. If your website’s average loading time is below 9.82 seconds, your website is loading VERY fast as compared to the average websites ranking in Google at Position 1. You do not need to improve in this case.

    3. If your website average loading time falls somewhere 13.84 seconds and 17.98 seconds, your website loading speed is below average. In this case, you will need to improve further to make your website load faster.

    4. Now if your website has an average loading time of more than 17.98 seconds, it is VERY slow. In this case, you will lose a lot of visitors, and that affects your sales and conversion. In this scenario, you will have to make drastic technical improvements to your website in order to make it load faster.
    There are several tools that can make your website load faster.

    http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/
     
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  3. shaamblaze

    shaamblaze Active Member

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    Thanks Kam really valuable points you have mentioned for me as i would like to test these things for my website
     
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    Its absolutely true, that Everyone Loves websites that loads fast. There are two plugins that helps to measure website speed 1. Yahoo YSlow and other one is G Page Speed.

    There are Certain ways where you can make your website load faster.

    - Minimize Number Of http Request: Limit the number of files required to display your site
    - Optimize Your Images: Make it as small as possible( Size)
    - Remove all the whitespace from code. (Html, Css & JavaScript)
    - Use CDN( Content Delivery Network) It replicates the static contents of your websiteand serve them to visitors.
    - Just Compress files at the server level before sending them to browsers
    - Put Stylesheets at the top( <Head>)
    - Put scripts at the bottom
    - Utilize Browser caching
    If you follow these steps your website will load fast.
     
    jayanth.balu, Jan 30, 2013 IP