A Google Plus member reports that Google may be testing a red indicator to identify slow web sites when searching with a mobile device. K. Neeraj Kayastha displayed an image of the search results he saw while doing a mobile search using his Android phone. The test appears to be taking place in India. I […]
Page Weight and Web Site Speed Performance
At one time when everything on the web was slow, users learned to tolerate web pages that took ten, fifteen or twenty seconds to load. Today, due to faster web servers and high speed Internet access, most users have become accustomed to speed and barely tolerate page loading times of five seconds. If your web […]
Does W3C Validation Really Matter?
The issue of whether or not to validate the HTML code in a web page has been controversial for several years. Whiles some SEO professionals maintain that properly validated code can help a web page to rank higher, others call that bunk. For those not familiar with W3C validation, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) […]
Web Site Speed Is Now a Ranking Factor
On April 9 Google announced that they have added web site speed to their algorithms as a ranking factor. While Matt Cutts, a Google quality engineer, did mention that they were considering this addition for some time in 2010, the announcement that it has already been implemented came as a bit of a surprise. The […]