So I was working on my senior project and came across Topher Kohan’s website and he has an interesting post I thought would fit in perfectly with IMD405.
Topher said:
“Last week, Google announced that the speed your site loads was one of more than 200 factors that figures into the search ranking of that page.
As happens every time Google says something, the Web/Twitter is going nuts over how this would affect a site. I wanted to give my thoughts on why you shouldn’t panic about this update.
Let’s start by saying that if the only reason you’re worried about the load speed of the pages on your Web site is because now Google is using it as a ranking factor, I feel sorry for the people who come to your site. As Google states in the announcement on the Webmaster blog:
“Speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and we’ve seen in our internal studies that when a site responds slowly, visitors spend less time there.”
A different way to say that is: Fast page load time is a good user experience.
We know there are more than 200 factors that Google uses in the ranking of a page, so do we really think that now that they’ve added page load speed to the mix, it will all of a sudden become more important than things like well-written, search-friendly content? I really can never see Google penalizing you for giving the end user a good on-page experience.”
You can check out more that he said here (http://www.topherkohan.com/ )
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment