SEO Tip #117: How is Google Helping Google Analytics Users with Site Speed?

SEO Tip  #117: How is Google Helping Google Analytics Users with Site Speed?

Matt Cutts: Great question. So first off let me just remind people that Google announced this year that we do use site speed in our rankings but it’s not a huge factor. So maybe one out of 100 queries, which would correspond to 1 out of 1000 sites, might be affected. So it’s not the case that if your site loads just a few seconds slower than your other sites
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Google SEO Tip#9: Are Chrome’s Usage Statistics Used In Evaluating Site Speed?

Google SEO Tip#9: Are Chrome’s Usage Statistics Used In Evaluating Site Speed?

Matt Cutts: I’m not a hundred percent sure about this one because I didn’t get to check with the Chrome team before I came on to answer these questions but I believe the answer is no, at least right now.

The sort of thing that Google is going to look at might be how fast do pages respond to Googlebot, if people have the toolbar installed and


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