If your website is taking time to load then it will decrease the efficiency of your website, visitors will not come back to your website and ultimately your ranking will go downward as major search engines such as Google and yahoo will take notice about website load time and they give points to a site who has good load speed. Now days many websites are on WordPress so I wan tto share a link about how you can increase the speed of your wordpress and you can find it here http://tiny.cc/30ncy
Page loading speed is really very important of ranking in search engine. Thanks for sharing your link.
Yes, We can not say that all thing depends on website speed but it improves website search engine position.
Thank you for the information, really helpful Even if SEO is not affected by website speed, we still want a fast website for our users or else they will leave through fustration!
Google has this topic will documented at http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rules_intro.html FireFox has a Page Speed add-on that is extreamly helpful. Here is a list of topics that you need to address: Leverage browser caching Enable compression Defer parsing of JavaScript Specify a cache validator Minify HTML Minify JavaScript Specify a Vary: Accept-Encoding header Avoid CSS @import Avoid bad requests Combine images into CSS sprites Enable Keep-Alive Inline Small CSS Inline Small JavaScript Make landing page redirects cacheable Minify CSS Minimize redirects Minimize request size Optimize images Optimize the order of styles and scripts Prefer asynchronous resources Put CSS in the document head Remove query strings from static resources Serve resources from a consistent URL Serve scaled images Specify a character set Specify image dimensions Defer loading of JavaScript Remove unused CSS Use efficient CSS selectors
It's definitely a contributory factor in the SERPS but I'm not sure your site would lose rankings based on that alone. Thanks for the link however!
I cannot say how large of a factor site speed has in rankings, but I think it plays a larger role then many people think. I have seen rankings improve when pages load faster and drop when the pages slow down (sometimes only 1 or 2 spots, but that can have a big impact on traffic). Of course this is not conclusive that site speed is the direct reason for the ranking changes, but I have seen it happen quite a few times and I believe it is having some affect. Google is passionate and almost fanatical about site speed, and if you doubt that fact, just look at the code for the Google homepage. They leave out the closing body and html tags which helps to make the pages load faster by milliseconds, and it decreases the bandwidth requirements slightly which can have an impact when you are serving billions of pages. Omitting optional tags keeps your HTML formally valid, while decreasing your file size and making your code look much leaner. In a typical document, this can mean 5-20 % savings. Applying this and a few other techniques in our Privacy Centers, we managed to save about 20 % of the original file size. http://code.google.com/speed/articles/optimizing-html.html