How much does load time matter?

I just moved to a faster server which cut my page load time from 3,000 milliseconds to 721.

I've heard that page load time can affect ranking and just wondering how much this really mattered?

 

I don't think it matters really, unless it's real real slow. Then robots have a hard time accessing the site.

 

Loading time really matter more.

I read a post on webmaster blog, Pls read it

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/07/best-uses-of-flash.html

 

It does matter. The robots may experience time outs if the page loads too slow. Check with your server CSR or if I may ask, how was your site done? in XML?

 

I think the problem occurs when the site doesn't actually load. The difference between 3000ms and 1500ms wont down rank you or anything

 

If your site is often unopenable or takes load of time to be loaded - your SERPs will drop. For an evident reason...

 

It effects your SERP's.So it must be minimum as much it can

 

If your talking about human visitors, I reckon it matters alot.
especially for your dialup/slow-speed viewers!

personally, I've left heaps of sites because its too slow to load (15secs+) and that's when im capped.. just my 2 cents

 

hardly matters these days. It's not like your load-time was terrible.
I don't cater for dial-up uers.

 

Well I just changed hosting in part because of this issue.

When i changed I watched the crawl stats in webmaster tools.

While my time spent loading the page in milliseconds dropped by nearly half - at the same time the number of kilobytes downloaded per day and the number of pages crawled per day increased exponentially.

That tells me when the site is easier and quicker to crawl the bots will take advantage and crawl more.

However the main advantage is for your visitors who dont have to sit there waiting for a page to load.

 

Load time is crucial
People are increasingly impatient on the internet and unless you have something really special on your site, they will move on to another site if your page loads too slowly. I certainly do with slow sites

Worth the change in my mind

 

This is a huge factor on big content websites. One of the most important factors, IMHO.

 

It can matter a lot

slow load time = high bounce rate

 

it should be top concern
for visitors and bots
if they can't see your site, they can't buy your products of spider your pages..

 

It uses joomla so yeah it's all php and xml.

I was on a vps with only 1 gig of dedicated ram. Doing about 3,000 uniques per day and an average of 7,000 page views per day was maxing out our memory and causing the server to reboot several times a day and slowing down the page load.

Since we've just switched I'll keep an eye on the kilobytes and number of pages crawled per day. Right now the minimum pages crawled per day is a little over 500 so I'll see if that number increases now.

 

In my point of view, I think PAGE LOAD TIME of a website didn't affect the rankings of a website in search engine.

But having a faster page loading time will benefit more the USERS rather than the SEARCH ENGINE.

 

I don't think so. It doesn't effect your rankings,etc..but, it just irritates the readers.
I think the normal page load time is less than 1sec.

 

It does matter a lot when your visitors are on dial up internet and they will experience frequent "timed-out" message.

 

It doesn't affect rankings but it affects your reader no reader will wait for your site to load for a longer time.

 

google count load time in ranking factor, load time should be fast