Does Google Think Your Site is Fast?

Maybe it has something to do with your webhost. I am not an expert in this area, but I do think the hosting account surely contributes to this.

After remove those flash and script contents on my blog(instead of them with text links), it's getting much faster than before. So try to make the whole website's program simple, don't add too many codes, especially iframe.

Hosting server bandwidth maybe causing the slowdown, try to increase the bandwidth allocation on your host.

i think this part is goes to hosting section

Thanks everyone. I'm going to be chatting to my hosting company about speed options with their servers. On a shared server with a business plan from 34sp.com in the UK. I need a UK hosting company for my target market.

Many time this will happen.Speed is definitely bandwidth problem.But one more thing deactivate all plugins and check whether that works well.

Get rid of stuff you don't need
optimize pictures
no flash

and check out this thread on Yahoo Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site
about page speed

The more complicated the programming is the more time it takes. e.g if you use flash it takes more time to open a webpage.

some time the images which you have added on front page may take time to open on browser. i may case the slow webpage. you can do one thing compress all the images and then use them. it will help you to improve your webpage speed.

I have a site hosted on a dedicated server in Hamilton Canada, I was sitting in the office in Toronto. Less than 100 KM away from my server. It took around 0.5 second to open every page. But the webmaster tools indicate the speed is around 6 seconds. As a lot of my users are from India, Philippine etc. Data was collected from chrome app as it is said on the webmaster tools page. So I agree with Blaine Moore. Have something like cloud front like the cloud service are providing is the best way to fix the problem. There is not much you can do on the server side.

Have give it a try. Will post a follow up comment in a month if I remember

From what I've been reading, Google is starting to place a pretty big emphasis on how quickly your site loads, and how free of bloat it is.

First you'll need Google Chrome and then you simply need to go in options and select Tools, then developer Tools. Under the Network Tab will show the elements delaying the page load. Simply go to the page you want to check and it will show whats delaying it most.

If all the elements seem fast, like milliseconds, then you should complain to your host.

Bernard St-Pierre

Of all the WordPress caching plugins "W3 Total Cache" is by far the most efficient and best at speeding up the speed of your site (I've done quite a few tests)

It's certainly more complex that WP Super Cache or Quick Cache, but it's worth spending a little while to fully configure it.

You should check your hosting. I have that problem once, then change to another hosting and worked fine since then.

If you use Wordpress, there is a Plugin called: WPMinify that works extremely well to speed up your site.

mine was a good result but i think it depends on your host a lot then your site

Try this tool

websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze

It might be a good idea to remove some of the plugins and see if it improves, or you might change the host if its possible to see if that helps

So far I have added CloudFare nameservers to the blog and I'll check the speed in 24 hours. Must say I do like the interface and some of the apps you can add to it in the dashboard.

Just checked my page speed online and at the moment it is 86/100

Anyone tried using this company Aptimize for increasing their website speed?

pretty much everything people are saying above are the only steps you can take to increase your site speed. Shared hosting is a big player because you are on the same server as 1000's of other sites most of the time. So if another site is very popular, they could eat up a lot of bandwidth and server processing time. Like everyone else has said, keep things like scripts and flash to a minimum because it takes time to load each of those and just puts more of a strain on the server & the viewer.

It night me web host or number of external objects

There is a ****load you can do to speed up sites, it is indeed a topic some could spend weeks or months even.

A) Optimization of your Sites
B) Optimization of your Server

Let's just talk about A) (B is incredible complex )....but the first thing is to use W3 Total Cache plugin and use a CDN (like MaxCDN) trying to offload requests.

The rest is tweaking on server level.

Yes of course I think plugin has some problem and reduce image size also and after all contact you hosting company there also may be problems.

get that fixed asap. Imagine how much readership you lose from a slow page daily.

damoncloudflare just had cloudflare installed for first 24 hours on free package. DNS check says worldwide servers pointing to cloudflare. Adsense working no probs on site with clicks coming through.

Very interesting to see threat control panel pick up 10 threats yesterday. Love the interface [see attached pic] So I had some "web spammer", "botnet zombie", "exploit attacker" all blocked.

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Q: When you challenge a web spammer what appears on their screen?

I'm not an expert on this topic but you may want to read further about page load time on Google Webmaster Blog. The blog URL is googlewebmastercentral(.) blogspot (.)com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking (.) html. I can't post the URL here so I separated it. You can ask questions directly to them if you're not satisfied with the answers on this thread.

Glad things seem to be working well!

The challenge page basically tells the visitor that they may have an infected machine, etc. & they have to pass a captcha to gain access to the site. If you would like to see what your challenge page looks like, or if you would like to make some customizations to the page, you can go to the following:

Settings->CloudFlare settings->customize challenge page.

Note: As our data sources may produce false positives because we rely on IP data, you can always whitelist IPs to override our behavior in your threat control panel.

You can do the following to get below 2 seconds
Initially my blogger blog took around 5 seconds to load ..
But now it take around 1.5 to 2.1 second to load and repeat view is below .8 seconds.

1. .htaccess edited and expires headers (Boosted a lot)
2. Merged all js files into one file (Good)
3. Use of CSS sprite (Awesome)

I am using my personal server to upload files which i used in blogger template
Your webpage speed depends on number of request sent to server.

For wordpress users: Don't use any kind of cache plugin they are just useless stuff. just increase the loads on your server.

Firefox browser >> Go to your webpage >> right click >> view source >> count the number of js and css files >> if more than 1 js then combine them >> if more than 1 css file then combine them.

Go to spriteme.org follow the instructions there(Help you alot to reduce number of request to server)

Search in google for "How to add expire header in .htaccess" . You will find useful content.

Note: Less request to server, More speed to your website. Few people requested use of CDN. If your website have more than 1000 people at a time then only CDN Is useful , otherwise its waste of money.