It’s official: Google incorporates website speed into your ranking
Most online publishers already know instinctively that a slow-loading website isn’t a good thing.
After all, who has the time to browse around a website on which pages take forever to load? Not a lot of people in today’s fast-paced world.
Google knows that, and after it dropped a hint late last year, has followed through on its plans to incorporate website speed into its ranking algorithm.
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