Ari Salomon: Art and Design » Web search engine http://www.helloari.com Photography, Design and Inventions Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:27 +0000 en hourly 1 Google search ranking: now using site speed http://www.helloari.com/blog/2010/04/google-search-ranking-now-using-site-speed/ http://www.helloari.com/blog/2010/04/google-search-ranking-now-using-site-speed/#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:13:56 +0000 Ari Salomon http://www.helloari.com/?p=781 Speed is now a factor in you google ranking. In my tests I found these speed issues are not much to do with the web host but with the complexity of the design of a page. Some aspects of that complexity are inherited from the CMS (WordPress, Drupal, ExpressionEngine etc) and may take a lot of work to remedy.

Speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and we’ve seen in our internal studies that when a site responds slowly, visitors spend less time there. … Like us, our users place a lot of value in speed — that’s why we’ve decided to take site speed into account in our search rankings. We use a variety of sources to determine the speed of a site relative to other sites.

via Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Using site speed in web search ranking.

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