Having a consistently "responsive" site will ensure that your site will be crawled and fully indexed, and will not suffer slow-loading ranking penalties. Optimizing the TTFB of your site is a good place to start to minimize the effects of speed on your SEO rankings » more »

By website optimization on 31 Jul 2014 PM | Permalink

The size of the average web page passed 1600K for the first time in July. Page size appears to inversely correlate with site traffic. » more »

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Learn how to speed optimize Wordpress for faster web pages and ultimately better conversions and rankings. Optimized hosting, performance plugins and modules, profilers, and other tools and software can help you pinpoint performance bottlenecks and speed up your site. » more »

By website optimization on 16 Jun 2014 AM | Permalink

Standardizing on an authoritative URL form is a best practice for search engine optimization and performance. Avoid duplicate content and first byte delays by canonicalizing your URLs. » more »

By website optimization on 24 Mar 2014 AM | Permalink

Installing mod_pagespeed can make significant improvements in web page performance. In our tests, web page start render times improved by 17% to 43% and load times improved by about one-third. However, while mod_pagespeed improved load times, it is no substitute for manual website optimization. » more »

By website optimization on 17 Feb 2014 PM | Permalink

We investigate moving an example site from a slow mass host to a lightly loaded host and measure the results. Server response times were reduced by 82.1% and variability by about 7 fold. » more »

By website optimization on 22 Jan 2014 PM | Permalink

To test President Obama's promise that the new healthcare.gov web site would be fixed by December 1, we speed audited the improved site. The site showed some improvements in "above the fold" speed, but slower load times than the old version. Optimizing the site with Radware's Fastview service could cut load times by more than 68%. » more »

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