Shris Smith says, “One of the first things I was taught when I started out in SEO a few years ago was that “your site speed is part of Google’s algorithm and can affect ranking performance.”

My reply was something like “Google has algorithms?”

Being new to SEO, I had many questions, but as this was one of the first things I was told, I thought it would be best to take a keen interest in it, and try to understand exactly how your site speed effects performance.

Cue my head exploding.

Yes, site speed can be a difficult thing for a newbie to get to grips with, especially when you consider every possible factor – images, style-sheets, flash, scripts – the list goes on and on.

As my knowledge of site speed grew, I began to understand that it’s more than just how fast your pages load.

We know that user experience is a ranking factor. How fast (and well) a page loads will come under this, but I think we need to stretch site speed a little further than this”.

Site speed for SEO: Why it’s about more than just loading times

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