Page Speed – More Speed!

Website Speed – Google prefers faster sites over slower sites, and taking note will deliver benefits.

1. Where you appear on the Google result pages.
2. Will visitors stay around to see your content, many newspaper websites load so much bloat I rarely stay to see the content. This is referred to as bounce rate.
3. If you have a very slow loading site – chances are fewer people will create unsolicited backlinks to it.
4. Faster loading websites come across as more professional.

Are all websites equal? – No

Many websites rely upon code the typical visitor is unaware of. The hidden code to add extra functionality does not all work equally quickly.

In this example website.

I updated the same words and pictures from the old website to a new website running the latest code.

The difference in load speed as measured by Google increased from