How fast your page loads may have a direct effect on how your site ranks in Google in 2010. Over the year of 2009, an important theme that Google has been involved with is site speed. Google has talked about the importance of speed on the web, and how the company wants to do everything it can to make the web a faster place. Matt Cutts was said on public that speed will soon be a ranking factor in Google search engine, “a lot of people within Google think that the web should be fast,†says Cutts. That is to say if you’re a fast site, maybe you should get a little bit of a better ranking. If you really have an awfully slow site, then maybe users don’t want that as much. google caffeineThat said, making your site faster is going to benefit your users and possibly your sales anyway, so you might as well start optimizing it for speed anyway. Then if Google really does start using this as a ranking factor, you will have a head start on boosting your rankings. Google recently announced a Site Speed site, which provides webmasters with even more resources specifically aimed at speeding up their pages. Caffeine increases the speed at which Google can index content, it’s time to readjust your way of thinking. The article Site Speed Will Become a Ranking Factor of Google from webpronews.com Download Books
wasn't this a factor for quite some time already ? response time/speed relates to your bounce rate, which in turn affects your ranks
That you call news? This is fact known for last 6 months and we hear about it from Matt even before that. What is new in this post?
Website speed is a common sense benefits to regular visitors instead of search engine bots. It could be a part of ranking factor but only a minimal effects. There are many other factors more importantly than just a website speed including link profiles and content.
Google has already said (months ago) this will only affect less than 1% of all websites. They are going crap sites that are crammed into the same server. This news is OLD
bounce rate has always been one seo factor, and bounce rate directly related to page speed as well, to me, it just almost the same thing.