Google will factor page load speed into search result rankings

[Francis Chan]

This means everyone got to start making changes and optimizing their web pages.

A lot of blogs have advertising and these connects to different networks which will slow loading of the page.

The article is here:

Google will factor page load speed into search result rankings

Get to work people!

[DogScout]

I have a graphics site (in my sig) I don't make money on it, all the adsense income (what little there is) goes to charity. every page has 99 previews of between 150-20,000 KBs. Needless to say, it loads slow.
Still it is on page 1 on Google for over 100 keywords. (with very little content).
so while speed is a consideration, there are many other factors with much more weight than that. (I think)
*the page with the most rank and keywords on page one on the site is the page that loads the slowest!*
(of course that could be why it is still a PR2 after 4 years with only one page at PR3 and not the home page, but one with very large preview images).
Mark

[DogScout]

They aren't discontinuing it, just not sharing the info anymore. It will be an internal thing now. Lol.

[jaybaker]

Not necessarily... If you have the google tool bar they still show it... I think that google does not want webmasters to obsess over what their PR is and therefore they are pulling it from their webmaster tools. I still think however that it is going to play an important role in their algorithm.