Comments on: Page Load Time is So Very Important

By: phoenix web design

phoenix web design — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 04:46:57 +0000

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By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:21:30 +0000

Hi Doug,

Thanks so much for taking the time to dig up the article from Matt Cutts!

I would say yes 1% is worth it since, if you have a good page load time then it helps improve your user experience, increase overall conversion, etc. Personally, I have seen site that have a very slow load time due to off site factors, poor design, non-optimized photos, poor flash files, etc that HAVE impacted the crawl rate of the site. When we have clean these things up (among many other changes) their SEO has improved…

Thanks again & take care,
Nick

By: Doug Montgomery

Doug Montgomery — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:10:00 +0000

Google is saying on it’s blog from April – http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html

While site speed is a new signal, it doesn’t carry as much weight as the relevance of a page. Currently, fewer than 1% of search queries are affected by the site speed signal in our implementation and the signal for site speed only applies for visitors searching in English on Google.com at this point.

So should we be worrying about the 1% that much?

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:20:08 +0000

Thanks Adam for reading and providing these great Firefox add ons to help with page load time improvement.

Thanks!
Nick

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:37:22 +0000

If you need a breakdown file by file, use Firefox and grab the Firebug addon (Net panel) _or_ Chrome has an equivalent built in, within Developer Tools – Resources.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:17:18 +0000

Hi Christa,
Thanks, Google Webmaster tools does tell you if you site loads slow, but it does not give you a file by file analysis/breakdown of what items on the site are causing it to be slow…

By: Christa

Christa — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:00:45 +0000

Google Webmaster tools is telling you, when your site loads slow.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:25:45 +0000

Hi SEOWebTech,
There are a ton of good tools out there to check page load time, here is the one that I use:
http://tools.pingdom.com/

Thanks for reading and your comment!

By: SEOWebTech

SEOWebTech — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:11:27 +0000

Nick you are right and Its really good tips. Is there any tools where I can check page load speed?
Thanks!
Rohit

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:09:40 +0000

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for reading every single word and pointing out my typo (which has been corrected!

Useless code can be for instance if someone purchase a template from somewhere and there are aspects technically implemented within the code that don’t need to be there. For instance is a navigation is hardcoded and not being used or old javascript or widget that is not longer being used…basically the point it (and I am not a web developer) but to reduce the code bloat to help improve the page load time.

By: Bruce Dowdy

Bruce Dowdy — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:42:53 +0000

Hi Nick,
Nice tips! However I think you inadvertantly got your words crossed with this in item #4:”A busy, graphic heavy background image can drastically reduce a website’s load time.”
Didn’t you mean drastically INCREASE the load time?
Also, with regard to point #3, can you provide examples of useless code (e.g., unused or redundant CSS parameters, etc.)?
Thanks!
Bruce Dowdy