In a recent video interview given by Googles Software Engineer Web Pro News, Matt Cutts has now given a clear hint that page load speed will be a major part of Googles algorithm next year. Web page speed is already a vital part of the Google AdWords quality score algorithm and until now has not directly been part of the main Google search algorithm.
We’ve always seen the effects of very slow hosting with poor crawl rates and a lack of deep indexing but Google has traditionally not been giving a boost to faster sites.
Historically, we haven’t had to use it in our search rankings, but a lot of people within Google think that the web should be fast. It should be a good experience, and so it’s sort of fair to say that if you’re a fast site, maybe you should get a little bit of a bonus. If you really have an awfully slow site, then maybe users don’t want that as much.
I think a lot of people in 2010 are going to be thinking more about ‘how do I have my site be fast,’ how do I have it be rich without writing a bunch of custom javascript?’
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A video is available below and the page speed part is around 2 minutes in.
While research this video I found that Google itself has some great Speed Resources at http://code.google.com/speed/tools.html
