Page Speed Could Determine Search Rank
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In an interview over the weekend with WebProNews, Matt Cutts, software engineer for Google, had suggested that a site’s speed could determine where it shows up in Google searches.
“We’re starting to think more and more about should speed be a factor in Google’s rankings,” says Cutts. “A lot of people within Google think that the web should be fast, it should be a good experience. And so it’s sort of fair to say if you’re a fast site, maybe you should get a little bit of a bonus. Or maybe if you have a really awfully slow site, users don’t want that as much.” (more…)