Optimize Website Page Load Time
Google recently made Site Performance available in Google Webmaster Tools. Site Performance provides detailed reports of your website’s speed and suggestions for you to improve web pages’ load times.
Google Search Algorithm to Include Website Page Load Time
Matt Cutts confirmed that Google’s SEO ranking factors now includes a website’s page load time and you should:
- Regularly check your site’s page load speed
- Continuously improve your site’s page load speed
How to Test Your Web Pages’ Load Speed?
Test your website’s page load times through one of the tools:
Web Page Load Time Optimization
Tips to improve / optimize your web pages’ load speed:
- Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site – Yahoo’s Exceptional Performance team has identified 34 best practices in 7 categories for making web pages fast.
- Optimizing Page Load Time – Die.Net’s Aaron Hopkins offers tips to improve page load times, reduce server bandwidth and CPU required for the average page view, and reduce costs while improving user experience.
- Web Page Load Time Optimization – Taming the Beast’s Michael Bloch offers optimization tips to decrease load times and make site management a simpler task.
- How to Minimize Load Time for Fast User Experiences – UX Booth’s Andrew Maier detailed how to analyze the bottlenecks preventing websites and blogs from loading quickly and how to resolve them.
- 15 Quick Ways to Shrink Page Load Times – Web Jackalope offers methods and tools to ensure your website is running quickly and smoothly.
- Website/Page Load Speed will Affect Google Rankings – Web Hobo UK offers a list of page load speed testing tools, but believes page load time of your site is a relatively insignificant Google SEO ranking factor comparing to backlinks, page titles and page content that matches search engine visitors’ intent.
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