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Site Speed

Site speed relates to how fast a site is able to load the content and resources contained on it. Speed affects a user’s experience of the website while also impacting how efficiently search engines are able to identify, crawl, and index content. Our Hangout Notes will help you understand the importance of having a fast site, along with advice to improve site speed. To learn more about the most important considerations around this topic, make sure you read our Ultimate Guide to Site Speed & Performance.

Confirm PageSpeed Insights & Structured Data Testing Tool IP Addresses with Test Page

PageSpeed Insights and the Structured Data Testing Tool use different IP addresses than Googlebot. There isn’t a list of IP addresses that they currently use, so check this using a test page and analyse the requests coming from these tools.

4 Oct 2019

Speed is Critical For Google to Index Content Quickly

In order to index content quickly, for example news articles, Google need to be able to crawl the pages quickly. This includes being able to access the server quickly, with pages also loading quickly.

27 Sep 2019

PageSpeed Insights Lab Tests & Aggregate CrUX Report Data Are Used for Assessing Site Speed

Some of the sources that Google uses to assess site speed are PageSpeed Insights lab tests and aggregrate data from the Chrome User Experience Report.

23 Jul 2019

Speed Metrics Important for UX Are Different to Metrics Important for Crawling & Indexing

While there is some overlap, speed metrics that are important for UX are completely different to those used for crawling and indexing. For the latter, Google needs to be able to request the HTML pages as quickly as possible and server response time is also important.

3 May 2019

Use Lighthouse Metrics to Understand How Users Experience Site Rather Than Search Engine Algorithms

Google uses a variety of metrics to determine site speed, but a lot of the metrics in Lighthouse are more likely to impact how users judge speed rather than Google’s search algorithms. John recommends testing site speed with users rather than trying to determine if Google sees it as too slow.

19 Feb 2019

Speed is a Minor Ranking Factor Compared to Content Quality or Relevance

Improving site speed alone probably won’t change rankings or visibility for a website because it is a very small factor compared to the relevance and quality of a page’s content with regards to rankings.

5 Feb 2019

Lighthouse Analysis Uses Medium-end Smartphone on 3G Connection

Lighthouse analysis uses an average smartphone on a 3G connection to measure speed. This might account for discrepancies between Lighthouse and independent tests which might be carried out over a much faster Wi-Fi connection.

22 Jan 2019

Server Location Shouldn’t Impact Google’s Page Speed Measurement

The geographic location of a web server shouldn’t impact Google’s measurement of page speed. They have labs data to artificially measure the speed a page would take, and field data to measure the speed of pages for real users.

30 Nov 2018

Google Speed Tool Scores Don’t Map One-to-one with How Speed is Used for Rankings

The scores shown in Google’s page speed tools such as PageSpeed Insights don’t map one-to-one with how sites will be ranked in search in relation to their speed.

27 Nov 2018

Lab Data & Field Data Differ in New PSI Tool as User Devices Differ From Google Default

The lab data can differ from the field data in the new PageSpeed Insights tool because users sometimes have different devices than the default device that Google would use for testing.

27 Nov 2018

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