It’s official. Google has added “site speed” to the long list of factors it pays attention to. And here’s confirmation of this. Google Webmaster Central

Site speed is the time it takes your web page to fully load, so what’s making your site load so slowly?

Here’s a tool that will check your page load speed for free and identify the factors you can work on to make your site load faster. Zoompf.com

At the moment, this site loads extremely slowly… which you probably noticed. Looks like I’ve got some work to do but I already knew that.

For a final comment for now, let’s not overlook the fact this is only one element among many that affect where your site appears in the Google SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages). Content and links are still the big hitters in this ball game.

– Written by Gary Harvey.

UPDATE: GTmetrix.com will also check your page and let you what’s making it slow, with links for more info about each issue. Free too.

Lightspeednow.com offer a speed test with an easy to read results — and it’s also free.

Do yourself a favor and enter your URL into one of these speed testing sites. You could be in for a shock. I know I’ve got some work to do.







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