Is site speed important?

robertman11

Yes, very. I will leave a slow site very fast.

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tacitinc

Well besides This guy ^ leaving, lol, google will give you more search preference if your site is neck and neck with a competitor's and yours is faster. General 8-12 seconds is where you want it.

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Yes it is. To me anyway I do not like being on a slow site. I will leave if it has not loaded fast. I know that many will leave if they have to wait for a site. It is very agrivating when you have to wait.

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twilight

Yes to me it is. I do not have time to wait for a site to load. I want a fast site. I leave after 10 to 15 seconds if a site is not loading fast.

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Kat1

Speed is very important. I do not want to nor do I have the time to wait around.

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oliver321

Website loading speed directly effects the site traffic and thus is really very important. Fast and optimized pages lead to higher visitor engagement

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ellienowell

The Importance Website Performance Has on Revenue & Experience

Shopzilla increased page load time from 6 seconds to 1.2 seconds and increased revenue by 12% and page views by 25%.
Amazon increased revenue by 1% for every 100 milliseconds of improvement.
AOL documents that visitors in the top 10th percentile of site speed viewed 50% more pages than visitors in the bottom 10th percentile.
Yahoo! increased traffic by 9% for every 400 milliseconds of improvement.
By reducing the website by 2.2 seconds Mozilla estimates that 60 million more Firefox downloads occur every year.

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Tommy Matalino

Is site speed important?

Of course it is important. Who wants to stay on a website that loads slow even if you are on a broadband internet service? Will you?

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ralph101

Yes it is very important to me. I do not have time to wait and wait for a site to load. I figure that if you do not want to change your speed, then you do not want me to visit your site.

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Tommy Matalino

Slow loading sites increases your site's bounce rate.

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angie828

Of course it is important. Who wants to stay on a website that loads slow even if you are on a broadband internet service? Will you?

Nope I will not. I find a different site with the same topic and use that instead.

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Tommy Matalino

Nope I will not. I find a different site with the same topic and use that instead.

Most users do that. And as far as I know (I could be mistaken though), a site must load in its entirety between 15 to 30 seconds, or 1 minute ti the very least.

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fantasticode

Few visitors have the patient to wait for minutes before a site is open. Images, flash, etc. would make a site looks attractive, but it also would affect the site open speed that will bring a great visitors loss.

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Sean101

Yes, it is important. You should try to get your website loading speed lower as much as possible. Lots of images can slow it down and if you have a forum, lots of mods can also slow things.

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twilight

Really Sean, are you serious about the mods part?

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Sean101

Really Sean, are you serious about the mods part?

Large mods and/or lots, yes. I have a forum (XboxLiveFan.org) with a lot of mods done to it. its nothing to worry about, but yeah, it can contritube to slowing the loading speed

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goodboy133

Yes. Definitely. Site speed is very important for your site for sure.
Try asking yourself this question: Would you go to an ugly site, with nothing really interesting, with a good speed, or would you rather go to an amazing looking site, with loads of images and resources needed with an incredibly low speed? I'd go for the first one. Some factors that contribute to low site speed would be images (like Sean said), mods/plugins (for forums), or the hosting might be bad and slow (when their servers are slow), which you would most likely encounter when you're using free hosting such as 000webhost. The best way to avoid this is clear out the space on your hosting, use smaller resources, and/or maybe go with paid hosting.

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Sean101

Yes, the choice of which hosting service you use can also effect the speed of your website.

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yukti023

Yes, Page loading time is obviously an important part of any website’s user experience.

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barry

It is important to me in all aspects. If a site takes too long to load I will find my information on other sites.

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sharif

Is site speed important?

Site speed is very much important for your SEO.

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seojoin

for fast working speed is must.

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bellyb

Yes, If your site loads slowly, Visitors will leave your site.

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MOKTER

Yes, it's necessary for a good site. Web site user interest to visit more to more the same site if the site speed is good.

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NileLars

I am using Google website speed optimizer for analysing speed of my web page. Followings are ref URL.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights

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Gjeloise

Site load speed might be important to some search engines like Bing, but I have not read where it is considered by Google. Though i'm sure the ability of the spiders to access your site is an important factor as they can't crawl your site if it's down or inaccessible.

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priya

Yes ! it is one of the most important factor for climbing up the ranking in google or bing search. Both search engines do calculate page load time !

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swapnil

Yes, definitely very important, ask this question to your self would you like to visit a site that takes about 2-3 minutes to load totally for every page you click on, I personally hate such sites, so for me it is definitely a yes, also for many of the members here the opinion would be the same.

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karnimaa

Yes it is a on page factor in seo. if site load time is high than it affect your ranking.

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priya

Although optimized website content and link building are still important factors, website load speed is an often overlooked aspect that can ...

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It is overlooked by humans, but not by search engine crawlers and algorithm when they rate or rank a site

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Tommy Matalino

Yes ! it is one of the most important factor for climbing up the ranking in google or bing search. Both search engines do calculate page load time !

What is the best or suggested loading time for all websites? How about those who use FLASH on their websites? Won't their site load slower than others?

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priya

Flash sites are slow like hell ! That is one of the reasons google crawler doesn't crawl flash webpages. It is a well known truth.

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America

If a site loads slow, I think it's out of business and shut down the tab rather than wait. So all the SEO done on that site is for nothing as I never get to see it.

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Tommy Matalino

Flash sites are slow like hell ! That is one of the reasons google crawler doesn't crawl flash webpages. It is a well known truth.

I thought Google now have a capability to crawl flash based sites?

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priya

Nope. It still doesn't have that capability. The simple reason for it is that flash is not converted into html !

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jackson9

Yes, site speed is very imp. as a user if i have open site and site take time to open then, i will not wait for this. I close this site and open another site. So SPEED is very IMP part.

Thanks,

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Tommy Matalino

Nope. It still doesn't have that capability. The simple reason for it is that flash is not converted into html !

Then, how about this?

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Gjeloise

Yes, definitely very important, ask this question to your self would you like to visit a site that takes about 2-3 minutes to load totally for every page you click on, I personally hate such sites, so for me it is definitely a yes, also for many of the members here the opinion would be the same.

I would check my internet connection if a site took so long to load, not just assume it was the site's fault.

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Beverly

I thought Google now have a capability to crawl flash based sites?

Here's what Google says about it's ability to crawl flash sites. It seems possible but there might be some limitations.

http://support.google.com/webmaste...p;answer=72746#1

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shek

The answers in google community are not standardized. I mean it is coming officially from google.

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priya

Then, how about this?

What are you trying to point to ? I don't see any hyperlink with you post :|.

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MikeQ

Of course, site speed is important and you should make your site speed very fast, it would help in SEO too.

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priya

Of course, site speed is important and you should make your site speed very fast, it would help in SEO too.

I've a site which has few applets and images on homepage. It loads a bit slower. Do you know any trick to make my current site faster ? Please don't tell me to remove applets or images, as they are required.

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angie828

I've a site which has few applets and images on homepage. It loads a bit slower. Do you know any trick to make my current site faster ? Please don't tell me to remove applets or images, as they are required.

Could you maybe make them smaller in anyway? This might help them load faster?

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Beverly

Yes, it is important. You should try to get your website loading speed lower as much as possible. Lots of images can slow it down and if you have a forum, lots of mods can also slow things.

I've seen this happen on numerous forums. I'm always really happy with a forum where they have a simple, clean design and very quick loading pages.

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angie828

yes it is undoubtedly true. It is the key factor of your great business.

Yes but many do not realize that. They often do not care how long their site takes to load as long as it looks good.

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priya

Could you maybe make them smaller in anyway? This might help them load faster?

That is the problem. I don't know how to make them smaller without loosing quality :|

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Tommy Matalino

That is the problem. I don't know how to make them smaller without loosing quality :|

Of course you'll lose quality. Use thumbnails on images. Limit its sizes.
And when your reader clicks your image, an HQ one will pop-up. It will definitely load a little faster.

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priya

Of course you'll lose quality. Use thumbnails on images. Limit its sizes.
And when your reader clicks your image, an HQ one will pop-up. It will definitely load a little faster.

Don't you think opening a pop-up for image look awkward ? I mean if I open a pop-up then user might have to switch windows :|

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darbyheribert

Although optimized website content and link building are still important factors, website load speed is an often overlooked aspect that can ... Although site speed is a new signal, it still does not top the most important factor for Google - the relevance of a web page.

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priya

Relevance will always be on top. But page load time is one of the most important factor for getting good rank in google. You can see most sites on top rank load within few seconds !!

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angie828

Relevance will always be on top. But page load time is one of the most important factor for getting good rank in google. You can see most sites on top rank load within few seconds !!

Yes I agree with you on this. If you do not have a fast loading site then you will have a higher bounce rate.

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Beverly

Although optimized website content and link building are still important factors, website load speed is an often overlooked aspect that can ... Although site speed is a new signal, it still does not top the most important factor for Google - the relevance of a web page.

Even if Google doesn't consider it one of the most important factors for search engine ranking; page load time is still an important factor to the human visitor who has to suffer through slow loading pages. Though you might still rank well in search engines, anyone who clicks through won't stick around long enough to buy your products or click on your ads, if pages take forever to load.

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ForumPoster

Page load speed is also one factor in SEO so we should try to make our page load speed very fast for better result from SEO. It is also user friendly.

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priya

How is user friendliness related to loading speed of a page ? Care to explain ?

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ralph101

How is user friendliness related to loading speed of a page ? Care to explain ?

I am not sure but maybe the faster it loads, the friendlier you think it is? Not really too sure though.

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Dether

Think about it this way:
- U visit a website that load so so long, You just leave it because it make You sick to wait so long time.

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Theadora

Yes, site speed is important and the more fast your site opens the better benefit you would get from search engines.. it is also a factor of SEO among other over 200 factors of SEO.

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priya

I am not sure but maybe the faster it loads, the friendlier you think it is? Not really too sure though.

Got it. I never thought in that way. I always though UI is the only aspect which comes under user friendliness. I love this forum, for teaching me new point of view

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Beverly

People will get sick of waiting for the page to load and simply move onto another site that loads quicker.

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jmdpacificforum

Yes, beacase it's very annoying when internet connection is slow

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tony69

Is site speed important?

Definitely site speed matters for optimized site and form user point of view too, its site will be slow then user will back out form that site hence bounce rate will increase.

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MikeQ

Of course, site speed is really very important as it is one factor among 200 other factors of SEO.

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sunil0021

Yes, site loading speed is very important for your visitors so that they can easily navigate from one post to other

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owen100

Yes, Page loading time is obviously a significant part of any site's consumer experience.!!

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dennis123

Hello,
Site Speed is important because Slow loading sites increases your site's bounce rate.

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tony69

Hello,
Site Speed is important because Slow loading sites increases your site's bounce rate.

main thing is that it kill the interest of visitor and will never recommend that site to any one.

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papercup

Yes site speed is very important for seo. Visitors may leave the page if it take time for loading.

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spykaushik

I think site speed is very important to vistors who come to your site and if the site speed is very slow the visitors leave your site and it will create a negative effect on your site and will increase the bounce rate.

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loulou

Yes page loading should be fast or I might be apt to leave the site right away.

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crazygeek

Ofcourse YES! If you site speed is very slow , people will start hating your site and thus will reduce your traffic and affect your bounce rate too . and light weight and fast loading websites are always loved by visitors .

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evie

TO me it is. I want a site that loads fast so I can be done on the internet quicker.

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Corzhens

The speed of displaying the web pages is crucial to the image of the site in terms of direct traffic. I usually exit from a site that takes more than 30 seconds to show the entire web page that I am looking at. Take note that users have a short attention span now that they wouldn’t want to wait so your web page should be fast in displaying the contents. I think even the search engines are affected by the site’s speed.

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