Google says speed matters

It no longer rumor speed is not a factor in the Google algorithm. You can read about it all here Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Using site speed in web search ranking.

That was a good tip. Now we know we should speed up our website page load for a much better rankings.

your choice is right one!!!

Useful FF plugin by Google
code.google.com/speed/page-speed/

Google recommends using Firebug to check on speed which is great if you are a coder. For most no coding website owners picking up the speed may be a daunting task for them.

For me, it is a ranking factor to show Google now puts more emphasis on customer experiences on sites.

Thanks,

Yes, it certainly does. It will be interesting to watch how the SEO community reacts to this change and how important that it might actually become. Finally something new to talk about!

wow, did not know that speed was actually factored into PR...crazy, I thought it just frustrated your potential customers...ha ha

Actually, it is but just one of hundreds of those factors that may affect your PR and now Google wants a site to be more easy to load. It somehow beneficial for both search engine and human visitors to minimized the bounce rate when someone visited a site without leaving it fast because of slow loading.

It was announced in December 2009, and now it's a part of the algorithm...

Now we have 2 options:
1. Change slow sites to simple and fast loading pages
2. Upgrade shared servers to VPS and Dedicated

Actually Google began the discussion back in June of 2009 which is typical of Google to mention pending changes in advance. I can see that this will be problematic for no coding website owners.

I read up from the news that Google plans to monitor the results of this change and eventually expand the use of page speed as a ranking factor in other countries.Moreover, Google says this ranking change has no relation to its upcoming Caffeine rollout, which is about how Google indexes the web, not how it ranks pages.

I just switched from Internet Explorer to Firefox and it’s way faster. What’s the impact? I’m more than ever on the web and I am more excited about surfing on it. E-marketers should definitively focus on the whole customer’s experience and the ecosystem of web using. Without a doubt, speed is an important aspect of this ecosystem and this change can only be positive. Not only your Google ranking is going to improve, but also your conversion rate and that’s the main issue for most of the companies. So, consumers and companies are winning in this situation.

You have made some really good points here. I see it as a triple win situation. Google wins by saving money, the website owners win by getting more visitors and the searchers win by not having to waste time.

I would never sacrifice content or divert massive amounts of my time in worry about perfect page load speed as I think there are more effective things someone could do with there time; Avoid placing inline scripts between CSS and other resources; Strip whitespacempact CSS, place it in <head: and remove unused CSS. However, there are some simple steps that just about every one can do to massiveley speed up their site load times. Here is a video I found on youtube that shows some pretty handy tips and tools to use: YouTube - Fast Free Tips to Greatly Speed Up Your Website!

I like your answer a lot. This new speed factor will only improve the over all user experience and that will benefit everyone.

We must say that Google is changing his rules and regulation to optimize a website, they are trying to bring some effective changes in there techniques and i think they are making it easy for SEO optimizers also to work

This will only make things easier for those who already have coding skills, which most website owners can not do. That why I say this isn't your mommas SEO anymore. You will not be able to get by by simply changing some tags and calling it SEO.

I was just telling my opinion, by the way the thanks button is in the left side below your name. You can say thanks for me through that way.

Actually Google did not change his rules and regulation though they are just trying to improve it and their algo that way those people who wanted to cheat search engine will get no use as they do it from time to time for their protection and i think they did a great moves.

I'm very pleaded to see this introduced because it's just neglect if a website owner does not ensure that their site is responsive.