Website speed affecting SEO (Matt Cutt)

[Grant]

If your website takes more then 5 secs to load how many people do you think will wait for it to load now a days?

As you mentioned people will not wait for such sites, then automatically visitors will be less on that site, as a result ranking will be also less for that site, So Google need not to worry about page load times of a website. Sometimes Google goes crazy Isn't it?

[kelvintrinity]

As Google is considering the website speed now, any web server that offers optimum speed and performance would be much beneficial and considered good for SEO purpose. Hey kelvintrinity, may i know what updates google have done in their Algorithm. I think Google never disclose their algorithm of rating a website.

Thats right it never does discloses and i don't know if it will in the future. If you are asking me the explain the the 5 sec thing i mentioned. Try thinking from a user point of view. When you SEO a site the first thing that comes in your mind is what a user(of all age) wants then what are SE's requirements and only then you think from a webmaster point of view. I have only told 5sec there are webmasters more meaner and experienced then me who scolded me for saying 5sec where as they say it should not take more then 3 sec for a webpage to load. Its not that only programming side has logic, Logic plays a very imp role in seo.

And suresh i have not mentioned a perfect speed its a guess. Try thinking from a user point of view once a while.

And grant google has not gone crazy. There are hundreds and thousands of google employees assigned for this very purpose of spending time on R & D on many things including search engine algo's. Do you really think those ppl are crazy. Now please dont ask me how I know. You can never call yourself a webmaster unless you spend time your time in getting all this info though it may sound time consuming and useless. Believe me you, its worth the time. Also about web hosting SEO servers never heard about it but if they are cheap then common hosting and fast its really cool but if its charging the same then i dont know if ppl will go for it.

And ya at the end if you have any doubts regarding robots on how and why, when, which visiting your site? I think this site should be helpful kindly spend your time reading it "http://www.robotstxt.org/faq.html" (This is to let you know about how SEs robot crawl)

[Nicholas]

Absolutely correct kelvintrinity, the SE's would never disclose the expected load time. The only way we can keep our websites have an ideal load time is to think from a visitors point of view. Also, you need to make certain observations for the websites that are ranked higher in the search engines. It is better to avoid flash and similar scripts that can slow down your website's performance. Here is a tool that can help you identify the speed of your website : www. websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ (Please remove the space after www. , to access the URL)

[Vishal]

Has he mentioned what is the perfect speed for loading a webpage? I think nobody can determine that, this is just ridiculous to all web-masters.

0.50 to 1.50 Sec is ideal loading time.