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Recent research by Moz has found time to first byte (TTFB) to be the most important site-speed related factor in determining rankings in Google search results pages. This is a surprising finding as the conventional wisdom of SEO experts advised that on-site elements such as unwieldy JavaScript tags and uncompressed imagery were the most important …
The time it takes to load pages on your site has a major effect on both user experience as well as search rankings through Google’s inclusion of site speed as a major factor in SEO performance. You want your visitors to have a great and seamless experience browsing your site and Google wants to show …
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Alexa Average Load Time provided by Amazon Web Services is a popular method of gauging site load time. It helps us to get a better idea of how a site’s page load time compares to other sites across a wider sample of the population than just a single test from a single point of view. …
The web runs on status codes. Every page you visit on the web returns a status code, which gives added info and instructions to the browser. As well as your browser, search bots see these codes too, so some of them can have an impact on SEO, particularly 500 error codes. What is a 500 …
As more businesses and bloggers crave improved site performance on a global scale, Content Delivery Networks have emerged as a useful tool. But just what is a CDN, and is it worth shelling out for? How does it work? A CDN is a network of servers that, importantly, are spread all over the world. This …
In the web design world, the term ‘render’ means loading. In other words, if you get a message that you have a render blocking JavaScript, this simply means that you have a JavaScript code that is preventing your webpage from loading. The leading search engine Google recommends that any web page should not have a …
Google determines the ranking of a website in their search results based on a number of important factors, such as relevancy, usability and backlinks to other sites. However one factor that is often overlooked is the time it takes to load the landing page. Now that we have entered the age of the mobile where …
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