Comments on: Site speed not a factor in the UK, yet

By: David Wheatley

David Wheatley — Tue, 11 May 2010 08:14:22 +0000

It’s interesting that google has started using site speed in it’s search algorithms and i imagine it will only be a matter of time before it affects the UK google site.

As a front end designer I’m pleased that google recognise such an important factor in a website, speed affects usability and the general professional feel of the front-end. Sites that are well built should be higher up the rankings as opposed to a site that is slow and poorly optimised.

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By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:52:52 +0000

Great read, it google puts it out there it will affect all sites under it umbrella best thing to do is build around it and create a faster site.

By: Tom Fitz

Tom Fitz — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:33:53 +0000

It will definitly affect UK sites. And Tim Diaz, I believe I will take a look at Yacht Exports. Thanks.

By: tim diaz

tim diaz — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:00:58 +0000

Nothing worse than bad site speed. Just a fun fact, if you ever need a yacht or boat shipped anywhere, Yacht Exports is your best bet. They have done a great job with me!

By: england flag

england flag — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:28:23 +0000

In our implementation and the signal for site speed only applies for visitors searching in English on Google.com at this point.

By: Saurav

Saurav — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:55:12 +0000

To be honest I agreed with Tarran and Reviewmylife. I also believe that site speed problem was in effect few weeks ago.

I have been working on a .co.uk site which had a loading time of 9 seconds, 3 weeks ago I compressed CSS files and Javascripts and this week I have seen good improvements on ranking on the homepage. No I have not done no link building or any onsite work before you ask me.

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By: Online Reputation Management

Online Reputation Management — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:41:02 +0000

It does make sense to include the technical capabilities of a website in their algoirthm as well. And even if at the moment this is only live for google.com as they say, obivously it will soon be for Uk as well. So we should all work on that as well, just to make sure we’re not caught off guard. And if it is already live, then all the more reasons to keep that as a priority.

By: Stephen Webb

Stephen Webb — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:24:52 +0000

This is an interesting read considering the widespread belief that site speed is a key factor in Google rankings in the UK market. Many sites have been optimised on this basis in the belief that this is already a ranking factor, but obviously it is yet to go into effect.

Despite this fact optimising sites for speed is certainly good practice, as it increases the usability for those on slower connections, and reduces server load and bandwidth usage.

Itâ€™ll be interesting to see when site speed becomes a factor in UK rankings, and how much attention this will gain. Iâ€™ll be interested to read the comments regarding this.