Posts Tagged ‘Load times’

Slow website? Five ways to speed it up

The Web has definitely gone real-time, and users expect near instant gratification for most of their online experiences. No matter whose data you look at, providing a fast and reliable website will positively impact your business in terms of conversions, page views, user satisfaction, and most recently, Google search rankings. While there are many things [...]

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TechCrunch reports on AlertSite’s Business Benchmarks, and Twitter, Facebook performance

A TechCrunch article posted yesterday used AlertSite’s Business Benchmarks to compare the performance of some of the top social networking sites, including Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Here’s a brief explanation of how we obtained those metrics. These social networking sites are part of AlertSite’s home page benchmarks. The home page of each site is loaded [...]

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Page Performance and Google Rankings: Impact on the Ecosystem

Although there are no official details yet about how page performance will be measured by Google, or how much performance will weigh in search rankings, the news does raise the urgency of ensuring your Web site, which is crawled by Googlebots, provides a responsive user experience. And it’s likely to have a big impact on [...]

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