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Page speed is the total length of time that it takes for a website to load completely. With regard to effective SEO, page loading speed is crucial. If your website does not load quickly, visitors to your site are likely to leave rather than wait for it to load, and search engines will penalize your site’s rankings if it performs poorly.
In its guidance to webmasters, Google explains how important page loading speed is for SEO. While Google considers a lot of factors in determining where a site ranks in a search, if your site loads significantly slower than your competition, your site will receive a lower ranking. Google allocates a relatively short amount of time to crawl and index a page, analyse the results, and rank the site. If your website loads slowly, Google will not have sufficient time to review your entire site and will base its ranking on only a partial view. The shortened review could have a very adverse impact on your search rank and the amount of organic traffic that you receive.
Slow page loading also adversely impacts your UX. About 40% of desktop users will abandon a site if it takes more than three seconds to fully load, and a whopping 72% of mobile users will abandon a website if it takes more than five seconds to load. If many potential visitors are abandoning your site before they actually view a single page, you are undermining any other SEO strategies that you may have implemented.
There are many reasons why your site may load slowly. Even if your site code is clean and well written, these factors could be slowing down your site:
Improving your page loading speed is an excellent SEO technique that both your customers and search engines will appreciate.
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