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Page Speed Now Officially One Of Google’s Ranking Factors
John Vantine | April 9th, 2010
According to Google’s Webmaster Central Blog, site speed is now officially one of the signals in their search algorithms. Site speed is one of roughly 200 ranking factors that Google takes into consideration when looking at a site. While they’ve never come out and announced each and every factor, a well-versed SEO can make an educated guess at what many of them are. If you’ve been paying attention to the SEO blogosphere, you most likely knew that this was coming. Bloggers have been talking about it since last year, and Google reps alluded to it many times at SMX West. In 2009, Google released Page Speed, an open-source firebug addon that assists webmasters in improving their site’s speed. Many SEOs and webmasters realized that Google was making a statement by releasing this tool… They obviously wanted us to start thinking about the speed of our sites. The Page Speed addon will analyze a web page for you, and give you a list of optimization tips. All issues that are identified by the tool come with suggestions in order to improve/fix them. Here’s what the Page Speed report looks like: Firebug (a free Firefox plugin) is required in order to use the Page Speed plugin. A page speed report has also been available in Webmaster Tools (in Labs, “Site performance”) since late last year. This report provides you with a summary of your site’s speed over the past year, and will give you an idea of how your site ranks in Continue reading…
Tags: Google, load time, page speed, search algorithms, search signals, site speed, yslow
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