Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'page load time'

Page load time (speed) is a factor currently in the AdWords quality score. But soon it may be coming to Google's organic ranking algorithm. If you have a really slow site, it may impact how high you rank in Google....

Posted on November 16, 2009 8:54 AM

Google seems to have been adding new alerts or messages sent via the Google Message Center in Webmaster Tools. We saw an alert for high bandwidth access rates and now I am seeing reports of messages warning of "high response...

Posted on July 24, 2008 7:50 AM

Last night, Google AdWords announced that the quality score now incorporates how fast your pages load. We have been hearing about this since early March and have even offered up advice on how to test your page load times. In...

Posted on June 19, 2008 7:32 AM

I reported this later last night at Search Engine Land but this is very important news for Google AdWords advertisers. Google will be introducing into the quality score component of your ad rank, the speed at which your landing pages...

Posted on May 9, 2008 7:55 AM

Yesterday we reported that Landing Page Load Time Will Impact Google AdWords Quality Score. We finally received confirmation of that from AdWordsAdvisor in both WebmasterWorld and Search Engine Watch Forums. Here are the details: This factor is not yet live...

Posted on March 6, 2008 7:11 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread discovers a brand new Google AdWords quality score metric, page load time. The new factor has just been added to the AdWords full dump of their help section (here is a picture for archiving purposes). If you...

Posted on March 5, 2008 7:30 AM