Have you checked your Google Webmaster Tools account today? If not, this can be good news to you and you might be interested in as it would help your site to gain higher ranking in Google SERPs in the future. This is closely related to Site Speed – the newest factor to determine ranking that will be added to Google algorithm very soon.
I have seen this in my account and feel very happy as I can know my site speed average time for curtain period. This could help me to optimize the loading time to comply with Google Webmaster guidelines and new policy regarding ranking factor. This feature is called “Site Performance”.
You can easily find this feature within your account in the tab “Lab” and here is my site performance for your reference and hope it will be much optimized soon:
What does Site Performance mean to you?
Here is what Google explains about that:
Site Performance is an experimental Webmaster Tools Labs feature that shows you latency information about your site. (To see Site Performance data, you must add and verify your site in Webmaster Tools.)
It shows you the average page load time for pages in your site, the trend over the last few months, and some suggestions on how to make the pages load faster. Page load time is the total time from the moment the user clicks on a link to your page until the time the entire page is loaded and displayed in a browser. It is collected directly from users who have installed the Google Toolbar and have enabled the optional PageRank feature.
All data is processed in aggregate without using or displaying any personally identifiable information. URLs displayed in the Example pages are collected from Google Toolbar. For privacy reasons, query parameters are stripped out. The URLs listed under Page Speed suggestions are based on pages crawled by Google. Their URLs are not truncated. The site-level “average” load time is traffic-weighted (i.e., more popular pages have a bigger say).
You can install extension called Site Speed to evaluate and know how and where to improve your site performance easily.
Thanks Google and hope you enjoy it too.
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I got the news about a week a go from an interview between Matt Cutts and Webpronews, and Matt said people inside Google are considering to put site speed to be important factor to rank a site in their SERP, so SEO cabinet will have a new guess in the coming 2010 if their plan will be realizing in the year to come, not a good news for me since all of my blogs average page load time above the minimum time limit
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You are right, there have been many discussions around this feature but not clear until it was officially released. Matt Cutts and many bloggers mentioned when Matt disclosed new ranking factor Site Speed. Happy to see it added to Webmaster Tools as we can track our site loading spee
d for better improvement in the future
Oooo… I’m going to have to check it out. Any greater insight on my site performance is a big plus!
This factor would be hot in 2010 once Caffeine is really effective and I am sure all bloggers/webmaster will pay attention to this and so do I
I have seen many bloggers posting about this. Will go read more as I have not checked this feature out.
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I think you should as the time to get Caffeine to be released is quite close and Matt Cutts said site speed will be one factor to be added to Google algorithm
I just landed here from Ruchi’s blog Choosyinfo and I find your review more informative. Its really good thing that Google is taking site speed as a part of SEO. Now we need to optimize our database to make our site load faster. I am just checking your link to know now how and where to improve your site performance easily.
Thanks, I need to look carefully on my site to have better overview on where and how to optimize including database, image, ads…so, there are a lot of things ahead that we need to do to get higher ranking. Thanks for dropping by
this is really a unique feature every webmaster need.. Thanks Google for the update..
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Yes, that is why Google is called Mr. Giant
I’m going to check this out. Thanks for sharing Tinh.
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You are very welcome!
Let me check mine…
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How is about your speed then?
Thanks
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You are welcome
Pingdome tools is also a great tool to test your site’s performance!
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I am always with Google and I think its infrastructure would be good too
LOL… Mine == 32.4 seconds to load (updated on Dec 8, 2009). This is slower than 100% of sites. :P
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32.4 seconds is very slow buddy, should much optimize soon to get higher ranking. My blog is 12 seconds and I am unhappy about this too. Trying to make it faster now
Hmm… Not sure how Google benchmark it. But in real life testing, I do not need to wait until 32 seconds for my page to load. :)
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Right, no one wants to wait for half of minute to see the whole page
Got my page speed down to 9secs from 41 secs, according to Google Webmasters Tool. Thanks to W3 Total Cache and it’s CDN function ;). It’s a pretty amazing but somewhat complicated piece of wonder.
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What? 42s? I could not imagine that I myself can not wait for nearly a min to see the blog to show up. My speed is from 7-12s max. I am trying to optimize more sooner