You Might Lose Some Google Traffic if your Website is Slow

If your website is slow you may start to lose search traffic from Google. The Google Webmaster Blog has had a few posts recently on the use of website speed in site ranking. I think it’s fair to say that Google will use it as a factor in your search position, but it’s still not as important as the relevance or authority of your site. This is one of those factors that affects your user experience so that definitely makes it worth paying attention to.

So it’s probably a good time to start checking your site speed now and plan any improvements that you’ll need to make.

To get you going, here are a few links to try out:

The Site Performance Tab on  Google Webmaster Tools

Try out the Page Speed extension for Firefox

Definitely look at Web Performance Best Practices at Google!

How fast is your site?

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Tags: Google, search, speed, webmaster, website

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