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Impact of SEO after Perfect Speed Time

by fahadrafiq
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Site speed is a big contributing factor to better SERPs, and one easy way to improve your site speed is to choose a better host.
These days even cloud hosting is affordable but very hard to configure it. I have found Cloudways that provides a platform to easily manage Google Compute Engine servers and launch websites on it in just a click...
Moving to GCE will greatly improve the webpagetest and pagespeedinsights score and help in beating the competitors in terms of site speed.
Here is a features and Details: Google Compute Engine
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Site speed is not a big factor for ranking pages.

    It's minimal at best.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    Originally Posted by fahadrafiq View Post

    Site speed is a big contributing factor to better SERPs, and one easy way to improve your site speed is to choose a better host.
    These days even cloud hosting is affordable but very hard to configure it. I have found Cloudways that provides a platform to easily manage Google Compute Engine servers and launch websites on it in just a click...
    Moving to GCE will greatly improve the webpagetest and pagespeedinsights score and help in beating the competitors in terms of site speed.
    Here is a features and Details: Google Compute Engine
    And what would you gain from beating your competitors in terms of site speed and still rank below them after that?
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    • Profile picture of the author fahadrafiq
      Originally Posted by SEO Power View Post

      And what would you gain from beating your competitors in terms of site speed and still rank below them after that?
      Ok, so don't track your competitors behavior.
      and What if your competitors beat you on only website speed factors?
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  • Profile picture of the author webdevpro
    IMO speed factor is one of the many (as most people boasts having 200+) but could not be as important as the website contents itself and the backlinks to it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Allset800
      A search result for a resource having a short load time relative to resources having longer load times can be promoted in a presentation order, and search results for the resources having longer load times can be demoted.
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      • Profile picture of the author savidge4
        I get that as a single element unto itself speed is not an overwhelming factor. But, if we think for a moment what the intent of our SEO efforts is for... getting traffic to our sites, then page load speed does become a factor on the user end. There is a statistic that states that you loose 8% of your traffic for every second your page takes to load. 3 second load time, and you can presumably consider 25% ( +/- ) of your sites traffic bye bye before your page even loads.

        So if the "Intent" is to gain traffic, and the load speed of your page is slow, you are fighting a self defeating battle. Factor in the idea that you are operating a 25% bounce rate at page load, your page view average drops, and you have slow speed.. well you all of the sudden have a chain reaction of 3 factors, 2 of which I think can be argued have a greater value than speed.

        That is the thing with SEO it is how one element plays with others, and the overall effect of one, can and does dictate the success or failure of others. In this case looking at the specific element of page load speed, and naw.. not such a big deal, but then look at the greater picture, and YEAH its a big deal.
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