According to Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Gary Illyes, Google is planning to rank mobile site speed separately from desktop. This means that if your mobile site loads quick and the desktop version of your site is slow you will rank…
New Google Tool To Test Your Sites Mobile Performance
Google launched a new tool today called “Test My Site” at testmysite.thinkwithgoogle.com. The tool helps you find out how well your site works across mobile and desktop devices, but its primary purpose is to make the mobile web experience faster.…
Google Adds AMP Data To Search Analytics
Google is rolling out a new feature in its Search Console letting webmasters drill down to see how your AMP pages are doing in Google Search. Google states: “With this, you can filter for AMP results (“which queries lead to…
Google Launches Mobile Friendly Testing Tool
Google’s obsession with making all sites mobile friendly continues with the launch of a new mobile friendly testing tool. The tool is available for all users logged into the Google Search Console. Google also has created a help page for…
Google Analytics Adds New ‘Speed Suggestions’ Report
Google announced the launch of a new Speed Suggestions report in Google Analytics. This can be found under Site Speed along with Overview, Page Timings and User Timings. The report shows the average page load time for top visited pages…
Today On The Matt Cutts Show: Page Speed As A Ranking Factor
In Google’s latest Webmaster Help video, Matt Cutts discusses page speed and whether or not it’s a more important factor for mobile than for desktop. The video is a response to the submitted question: Is load speed a more important…
Mobile Site Speed To Be A Google Ranking Factor?
Google has clearly had it with sites that have lackluster mobile experiences. This week, the company took to its Webmater Central blog to discuss “several ranking changes” it’s preparing for sites not configured for smartphone users. But that’s not all.…
How to Create a Fast-Loading E-commerce Site
You may have the most beautifully designed online storefront in the e-commerce universe, with a stunning array of desirable products – but if your website stalls when it loads, leaving shoppers tapping their fingers in frustration, the rest of the…
Google Analytics Gets New Site Speed Report, User Timings
Google announced today that it has added a new site speed report to Google Analytics, called User Timings. The report lets users track custom timings, and shows the execution speed or load time of any hit, event or user interaction.…
Leverage Browser Strengths For A Faster Site
We recently talked about reducing HTTP requests. Here’s a quick recap: Slow web pages impede your website’s goals; 90% of a typical web page’s slowness happens after the HTML has been downloaded; Reducing the number of HTTP requests triggered by…