According to a study done by OnlineGraduatePrograms.com in 2012, one out of four people abandon a website if it loads more than four seconds. Amazon, in another research, calculated that a page load slowdown of just one second could cost them to lose $1.6 billion in sales every year.
These are just two studies about page speed, but if you do a quick Google search, you can find thousands of similar studies showing how important speed optimization is to a certain website.
I know that the title sounds more like an FAQ but hey, I haven’t found out one specific resource here that approaches to answer this question in an SEO perspective. It’s a very interesting topic because not everyone could afford to maintain a dedicated server.
There is a really easy way to increase your site’s load speed by an amazing amount. I took one of my longest pages in my God and You site – which is my proposal video to my fiancee – and ran a speed test on it before I applied this performance increase plugin. Here are the results.
CDN is an acronym for content delivery network. While a self-hosted CDN defeats the purpose of the acronym because it is no longer a network, there are advantages it can bring to further optimize your site speed.
It’s not too hard to optimize your site speed if you’re using WordPress. There’s this plugin called W3 Total Cache (W3TC). Let me teach you what to turn on and what you shouldn’t play with in the plugin’s settings. This is bound to increase your site speed by a good margin.
Site speed is a part of On site optimization that can be really easily overlooked when you’re a busy internet marketer. You’ve got an overflowing email inbox, social media stuffs to take care of, and your next blog entry. Who has time for site speed? Well just so you know, site speed has increased my pageviews dramatically. (Not to mention it’s a ranking factor.) It’s a powerful, rewarding thing to optimize. In this series, I’ll take you through the best, easiest ways to optimize your site speed.
It’s official. Google is incorporating page speed as a factor into it’s page ranking system. Any reason to panic?
Well Matt Cutts seems to be totally calm and cool about all the fuss with page speed becoming a Google page rank factor. He thoroughly explained in his blog about it’s effects and the changes that will happen in it’s implementation.
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