They kind of hint to it if you use the webmaster tools On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Keith Pitt <[email protected]> wrote:
> They dont actually state what they consider to be a fast site. > > They do suggest Page Speed in the article, so I assume that they use a > deriviate of Page Speed to do the rankings. They wouldn't suggest "Oh hi, > we're ranking based on the server response time" then turn around and offer > you links to Client side speed testing tools (I think) > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Ben Schwarz <[email protected]>wrote: > >> A you've thrown up a pretty big, general "what if?" query here Andy, its >> somewhat invalid. >> >> Speaking also, very generally, if you take those simple guidelines from >> Nate Cockley's presentation and apply them - your site will be as fast as it >> needs to be 95% of the time. >> >> Google have indeed started ranking based on response speed (stated here: >> http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html >> ) >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Andrew Snow <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Ben Schwarz wrote: >>> >>>> I'd like to throw in two points: >>>> * More than 80% of performance in the browser is directly related to >>>> what you do on the front-end >>>> >>> >>> This seems to be over-generalised. What if my server-side CMS is poorly >>> written and some pages are taking seconds to render on the server? >>> >>> I'd imagine Google are only looking at server response time for the >>> purposes of ranking, and not client-side rendering or execution time. >>> >>> (Would be interesting to see them penalise sites for being >>> javascript-heavy, or using Flash!) >>> >>> - Andrew >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >>> >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
