Slow Loading Web Pages = Less Google Traffic
Slow loading web pages are terrible for the user experience and it probably prevents Google from sending you all the traffic you deserve.
All though I have not read this fact anywhere it makes perfect sense that Google would throttle how much traffic it sends to your site based on your server responsiveness. Your server’s ability to crank out web pages is directly affected by your individual web page sizes.
Serious thought should be put into making every page on your site as skinny as possible. For optimal page load times pay attention to these:
- Images
- CSS
- Java Script
- HTML
Google has released a handy Firefox plugin to help with optimizing your page load times. They also have a really good document on best practices to decrease page load times.
If you need help whipping those slow loading web pages into shape contact us.
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Written by Houston SEO on Jun 10 2009
Web 2.0 applications that have a lot of JScript are slow to load becuase they have a lot of JScript. Microsoft Research recently releasted Doloto — a tool to rewrite JScript so that only the parts initially needed are downloaded. The rest of the code is dynamically prefetched or downloaded as needed. I wrote a post with mroe details:
http://djgreer.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/why-are-web-pages-so-slow/
David Greer
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