Site speed in search rankings (SEO)

Submitted by admin on Mon, 04/12/2010 - 11:28

Google Started to use the site speed in their alghorithm. If your site response time is small, you have a better page and your user will have a better experience, and then better rankings, With this algo change, Google wil also penalize websites that waste their spidering times in waiting for response.

How can you know if your page is fast or slow? How can you improve your site speed for SEO?

You can use various tools:

1. Google Webmaster tools: Under Labs you can find Site performance, there you can see your website speed.page speed SEO

 

2. Use Firefox extension for firebug, This tool gives you advices and response times for various elements like images, html, and javascripts.paeg speed seo

 

3. You can find more resources from google here: http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rules_intro.html

On our company with our hositng clients, we are using site cache (Drupal), we also improve image sizes, consolidate javascript and css elements, as well as tune our Hardware.