Google officially announce that they have implemented site speed on their search engine algorithm. Currently, 1% of search queries are affected which means very few search engine rankings are affected. You can check the detailed post from the Google official blog http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html I have tested one of my site with the Page-speed tool ( suggested in G webmaster tool for Firefox) and found it has speed score of only 84/100. Google has not announce what should be ideal score to achieve.. Is there anyone has used this tool ? Share your score and also how can you improve it.
Yea, quite latest news. I suppose it's going to start outcasting those sites that takes hell long to load. It's a consideration from Google to think like a smart human. Google suppose to be thinking something like that in priority - Ok I need to sort a list of very related results for this keyword, relevance is the key - Now I got these related ones, find out which are the ones that answers to that query - Okay this very relevant results has to be fast and safe to browse, sites that takes forever to load should go down. Google doesn't want to give their search users results that slow sites, which is going to make people feel that - "Damn Google give me such crappy and slow sites" Speed is crucial to deliver information as fast as possible to the one finding it. But I feel that this will not be affecting sites that are within 5 seconds or so. It'll probably start with removing those that takes more than 10seconds. It's a psychological feeling of humans, after clicking on a Google result, you will allow yourself to wait several seconds. After a limit, different individual might have different limit, but comes to an average, lets say 5-8 seconds or more than 10. The user will press the back button because hes irritated waiting. This is what Google wants to avoid. Giving results that's slow in loading and eventually does not contribute to giving information fast.
This has been the case for a long while - but now Google have announced it. I made a video about it and how to easily speed up your WordPress blog automatically (so you automatically get better rankings!) [video=youtube;q1Nvo3PwfZ0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1Nvo3PwfZ0[/video]
Hello, ya, it's latest topic on search engine optimization, but it's also very important at the view point of search engine friendly website.
I tried this plugin on my wordpress, it's bad if you're still editing some of your website stuffs especially CSS codes. Once the cache is enabled, even "ctrl+F5" doesn't refresh my codes because it's using the old one. Just be reminded to delete cache from the plugin whenever you have changes.
Don't freak out guys. First of, Matt Cutts has been talking about load time for awhile now, so it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone here. Second, it is only a small part of the formula. All the other stuff that used to count, still counts.