Comments on: Site Speed: An Important SEO Ranking Factor?

By: pratish

pratish — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:32:33 +0000

I’m sure Site speed is one of the major factor in SEO. That’s why all SEO themes are light weight themes. Also this is the reason why many are using gZIP compression of html pages. All pages of my website loads within 4-8 seconds.

By: Antti Kokkonen

Antti Kokkonen — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 06:04:49 +0000

Mrinmay, the site performance graph in Google Webmaster Tools is based on data send in by the Google Toolbar users, at least for now.
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By: Antti Kokkonen

Antti Kokkonen — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 06:02:38 +0000

Mike, you are correct, design is important. But when using images, you can use them smartly.

On the background and overall design, one should use CSS Sprites (combining all images into one file and displaying each individual “sprite” via CSS) and optimizing all images for web (making the images as small as possible by using proper format and lossless crunching).

If you want to know how to optimize images, check out this post of mine: http://zemalf.com/1366/how-to-optimize-images-for-web/
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By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:47:34 +0000

I also agree that speed is one of the factor.But if we have make site more attractive to users we will have to use the images, graphic etc and load time will be more in that case.

So whom to prefer design or speed

By: Antti Kokkonen

Antti Kokkonen — Sun, 30 May 2010 06:23:18 +0000

Thanks for the StopWatch tip, clean and simple tool. In addition to Web Page Analyzer, I like to use WebPageTest.org for in-depth analysis and tools.pingdom.com for checking the loading times (it saves/caches the results, which makes it good "tracking tool" when doing optimization) .-= Antti Kokkonen invites you to check this out.. Speed Up WordPress – Even on a Shared Hosting! =-.

By: DiTesco

DiTesco — Fri, 21 May 2010 03:45:35 +0000

Not necessarily Wilson. It depends on how you have your blogger set up. If you have too many scripts and external calls, it will slow down just as it will any website that is self hosted. This blog was on blogger before and my average load time was no more than 11secs. That’s not bad, considering that the content loaded first and fast. What I did was to place other scripts way down to ensure that they load after the content.

By: Wilson

Wilson — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:30:43 +0000

Not sure will this add some cost to blogger, now that you’ll need better and costlier hosting for speed.

By: Mrinmay Bhattacharjee

Mrinmay Bhattacharjee — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:33:16 +0000

Hi,

Do you have any Idea what Connection Speed Google Uses when it displays Site Performance Graph in Google Webmasters Tools?

Thanks
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