Google announced page load time was going to become a ranking factor in 2010
 

it always has been a factor.

very interesting read
especially those SHARE THIS buttons, they cause indeed a lot of validation errors that can hurt your site.

Thanks again!

I can't imagine how would be now the internet if google doesn't exist!!

"a factor" is still just "a factor" - one could argue there are over 1000 "factors... but the fact remains that less then 10 comprise 90% or more of whats going to determine how you rank for a given phrase.

load times will never be in the top 10 for sure and its certain to only affect sites that are providing a horrible user experience with unruly load times. relevant results and how fast the site loads are only sparsely related. further, its only an issue for users and user experience, not keyword relevance. its not going to happen that you search for "camel pictures" and find that the best result for "camel pictures" will drop from number 1, to number 20 simply because other "camel pictures " sites that are worse results for that phrase load several milliseconds faster.

It was even before i think,and again,it is just a factor,from tons of it,but good article:)

Good read and great blog. Thanks for the tip

just concentrate on getting a faster load time than your competitors and see how that works for you.

I was optimize CSS and saved ~ 6Kb

there is also good tip for using social bookmark icons

Or DDoS your competitors...
WG

oh stop it :1orglaugh

since they inserted caffeine

good info, thanks for sharing!

I cum quickly, does that count?

Dedicated servers will sell like hot buns. Hosting is the business to be in 2010 I guess.

lol ding ding, we have a winner.

Any bets they undergo buying up hosting properties this year?

Sadly.... some people still think this is the way to go. One of my sites got DDOSed from Jan 2nd - 4th again... it's kind of annoying because it fucks up all my stats.... I get 1,000 uniques but 130,000 raw hits in CCBILL for one day.... just blows up my ratios. Grrrr.... :mad:

You dont have firewall installed on your machines?

:thumbsup:thumbsup

Its all bullshit, its just a SMALL very very small portion of your overall ranking. Google is trying to force the "hive mind" of webmasters to worry about speed so their Google OS looks and acts faster with more websites. Matt Cutts is the biggest bullshitter on the planet, shit is so funny to me.

dam, gotta up my load time!

it has been a factor for a long time, but only one of many....