Comments on: Google incorporating site speed in search rankings

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:43:44 +0000

Thanks for the great post. Do you know how to speed up Joomla sites?

Thanks

Paul

By: seowiz

seowiz — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:19:56 +0000

Are these strategies still valid as of today???

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:53:17 +0000

Hi Matt,
Great article, I think that speed on websites is becoming more and more important these days with a high percentage of browsers now using mobile devices. Nobody will sit and wait for your site to load no matter how good you think it is.

By: Craig Connelly

Craig Connelly — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:43:17 +0000

Something i have often wondered is if i am in New Zealand and Google is in US when they index a site does Google take into consideration that the site is hosted in a different country and give consideration for this in the site speed?

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:15:28 +0000

I really like these strategies, however I also want to add youtube. You can attract quality backlinks and traffic by Building a solid youtube profile, adding few interesting videos, linking your videos from other sources and by commenting on other videos.

By: Raymund

Raymund — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:04:40 +0000

Hi, just want to ask if there is a Google penalty for slow site speed. Thanks.

By: Pashminu Mansukhani

Pashminu Mansukhani — Wed, 18 May 2011 04:57:58 +0000

Yes, I have tried to implement some of the changes suggested, but overall it does not seem to be a critical issue. There are other issues that should given more importance than the speed of the website at which it loads.

With faster broadband and 3G in place, there is not much sleep to be lost on this relatively small issue.

By: Twine Prode

Twine Prode — Thu, 05 May 2011 23:33:49 +0000

Matt-

I realize this was written over a year ago, but isn’t the easiest step to install some sort of caching software on a site, and then optimize from there?

The thought being, many will digress into deeper technical functions that cause slow load time, and while that may be valid for a longer term fix, in the short term caching software could improve a sites performance significantly right away (easy on WordPress).

Thoughts?

By: Alec Difrawi

Alec Difrawi — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:56:22 +0000

I just added some php script optimization and am now hosting on a VPS instead of a shared server, hopefully this will help out a little since the last solution of terrible. As far as page rank is calculated I think that is the next area I need to work on.

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:46:01 +0000

Hello matt…. I don’t really understand what you meant by “you can focus on some very easy, straightforward, small steps that can really improve how users perceive your site.” so what are those small steps exactly? I am fairly new to this SEO thing. Thank you so much!
-Jane