Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Everyone knows about SEO and how it impacts your fortunes. Some of the elements like keyword density are common knowledge, but there are some finer elements which don’t know about. Though these may not have a drastic impact on your organic ranking, collectively they will make a difference.
Page load time
How long does it take to load your home page? I am sure most of you have never bothered about such things but Google seems to. According to their (Google) logic, visitors are likely to get frustrated and leave your site without even having a glance if it takes too long to load. Obviously, this can be a frustrating experience. Usually, website owners avoid Adobe Flash on their home page. The best method to ensure faster page loads is to avoid all images. Vector graphics tend to be extremely tiny in size and therefore preferred. For example, if I were to optimize the download speed of a page on Bistromd referral code or weight watchers online promotion code, I must ensure that there are no images on these pages or at the very least very small ones.
Other reasons why your page may load slow
There are other reasons why your web pages may load slowly. The load on the server in which you have hosted your site, the size of the communication channel, sudden surge in traffic to your site and the broadband or internet speed of visitors are some factors which impact on speed of page loading. You really don’t have any control over many of these factors, but a dedicated server can help in speeding up the matter.
There are many tools which can measure page load time. You can use any one of them. You must remember that the speeds are only estimates and may not be accurate. You must test several times and at different times during the day to arrive at an average page load speed. In the beginning I used to test once and concluded that the speed was fine. I didn’t realize that during other times when the traffic was high, the speed went down drastically. This was a huge mistake which probably cost me dear.
Tools to accelerate page load time
I have seen some tools on offer which assure speedy loading of web pages but frankly I have not tried them. How can you accelerate page loading is something I am not clear about. I am therefore wary of using such tools.
Why Google puts emphasis on page load time?
As explained earlier, Google wants visitors who come to your website or blog through their search page to have a great experience. If these people find the experience frustrating, they may not use Google search again which can be disastrous. No doubt Google wants to protect its turf.
Conclusion
You must pay attention to page load time if you want to find favor with Google.
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February 21, 2012 8:07 PM
Great to hear someone talking about Page load time in context of SEO. Its one of the most important and yet ignored factor..
Some times ago I published a article explaining how to improve the page load time..
http://notesofgenius.com/website-performance-optimization/
Hope this will help..
February 21, 2012 9:19 PM
interesting and in simple terms the more graphics ads gadgets etc it wud load slow and visitors would bounce off right.. good article aswani
February 24, 2012 10:16 AM
@Malinda - Thanks buddy...I will check out your post.
@Meena - Hmm...right!
February 26, 2012 12:16 PM
Number of small images makes up most of time.
CSS sprite should help it
February 27, 2012 8:47 PM
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