Hot answers tagged speed
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Google wants to provide its user base with the best experience possible when browsing the web - this is what retains their customers. A poor page load speed can have a serious effect on user experience, that is arguably the main reason Google sometimes ranks these sites less favorably.
It is also an indication that the site isn't perhaps maintained to a ...
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Google will penalize sites that are very slow (greater than 7-10 for the page to become usable). They do this because they state that users are usually not willing to wait that long when they click and usually return to the serps. Google wants to make their users happy.
In addition to the direct penalties applied by Google, there are indirect consequences ...
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You can slow down specific resources with Deelay.me:
<img src="http://deelay.me/1000?http://mysite.com/image.gif">
Deelay.me is a delay proxy for web resources. You can use it with your images/stylesheets/scripts, to increase their load time.
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Serve your images through a Content Delivery Network. Amazon has Cloudfront which offers pretty cheap services and allows for Origin Pull which means the images are hosted on your server for origin storage, but cached and delivered from the CDN's nearest endpoints to the customer. Basically you set your images to be delivered through a CNAME on your domain ...
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It depends what are you looking for: loading speed it's just an effect of network speed (which often is what you are looking for) and server side processing performance (hardware performance).
One factor to keep in mind is where the host is located: if your audience it's mostly in Europe, would be useful to get an host close to the main European backbone. ...
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It appears that particular chart has hidden the images that are downloading during that time period. I tested the same page myself using the Firefox web browser with the Firebug extension. A similar chart to what the website gives you is available under the "net" tab in Firebug.
As you can see, there are a lot more resources downloaded from your site and ...
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First, I would like to state that websites and blog should be created keeping in mind the target audience rather than search engine ranking, which even Matt Cutts will agree. Site loading speed has only a small part in Google’s ranking algorithm, but the fact remains that websites that are fast have better ranking in the search engine. Why? To answer your ...
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Create a backdoor (just remember to remove it later on!)
For example: Access through page inbox.php?loginForTest=1 will automatically login you as a user with ID 25, or whichever you'd like to use use for test, and load this content without making any further authentication checks.
Assuming you write OOP you'd be able to change just a few lines of code in ...
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Response Time
The problem is the ping time of the servers from UK to Australia its a hell of a distance to travel in terms of data and will add a lot of response time to the initial connection and the responses between pages. This would definitely effect their rankings as Google now takes this into a a factor.
To give you an example of just how slow this ...
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I just found out yesterday Google has a PageSpeed add-on for browsers that I'll suggest using as it breaks down performance issues by prioritizing importance. It also works in the browser (Chrome or Firefox) as an add-on. It also explains problems and solutions more if you're unsure what each item really means.
I ran PageSpeed on your site and my suspicions ...
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You can emulate various net speeds on a Mac using an free application called Speedlimit
Speedlimit Description:
SpeedLimit is a Leopard preference pane for limiting your network
bandwidth to one of a couple different speeds — 768k DSL, Edge, 3G,
and Dialup. This is really handy for testing your iPhone app under
normal Edge network conditions in ...
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