I’m not sure how much it’s going to affect your blog but Google has announced they will now be including the load time of a website when it comes to ranking for specific keywords. I’m guessing anyone with a clean sidebar and a shared server will be fine. I don’t however know how bloggers or free hosting blogs will be affected. If you have a free hosting solution it might be time to consider a new hosting provider that can offer you a fast loading time. What's your thoughts ?
This has already been discussed I'm sure. My thoughts - some webmasters are probably worrying unnecessarily about this one small fraction of the overall ranking algorithm. For me, there isn't really much to discuss, other than to say that if your website loads very slowly, you have more to worry about than your rankings, since users will probably click off the page before it fully loads.
This concerns me, my main page has a flash file on it, and as we all know sometimes flash isn't the quickest thing in the world to load...
I know page loading speed depends on LOTS of factors. I could list many of them myself. But my question is, all things being equal, would a site perform better under Linux than Windows?
One other comment. My site ran a lot faster until I started loading it up with a bunch of Google tools. Adsense, Analytics, Website Optimizer all slow it down. Kind of ironic that Google will be penalizing me for using their tools.
I'm agree with you... this is be my concern for last 2 month to clear my sidebar site.... I've get the Idea from my own 2 website with exactly same content (without any back link). they get different PR now...