Webmasters and search engine optimizers need to be aware that speed, or better a website’s loading time, is now part of the algorithm that search engines use to rank websites. At least Google has mentioned that speed is a ranking factor. Optimizations need to be verified and speed tests are one of the best options [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Page speed is a ranking factor in the Google Search engine. According to Google officials it is currently used in 1 out of 1000 queries. I think it was Matt Cutts who said that speed acted as a tie breaker in situations. It is however likely that speed will play a bigger role in the [...]

Categories: Web Development

Site speed has been added as a ranking factor by Google some time ago. Webmasters since then have started optimizing their websites’ page loading times. Some of the optimizations done included reducing the number of elements loaded when people visit the site, optimizing media elements, minifying CSS and JavaScript, and using web caching technologies to [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web, Web Development

Speed Simulator is a nice free tool that makes it possible to see how a website behaves under certain speed limitations. This is for instance useful if you want to see how a user with a 56K modem experiences your site and especially the loading time of it. Only the download speed can be reduced to simulate slower connections.

Categories: The Web, Tools