The fine folks at Portent have really come through with a comprehensive tutorial on the why’s and how’s of site speed optimization. Epic work.
URL: https://www.portent.com/blog/design-dev/ultimate-site-speed-guide-preface.htm
Tag Archives: site speed
The Google Gospel of Speed
From 2012, this article from Google’s SVP of Infrastructure, Urs Hoelzle, outline’s the search giant’s focus on Speed.
URL: https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/articles/the-google-gospel-of-speed-urs-hoelzle.html
Put your site on a diet
Fantastic primer on speeding up your website – nothing new in terms of techniques, but great delivery with examples.
The Impacts of Site Speed on Search Ranking
The guys from Zoompf (one of our favourite site speed tools) conducted a huge study on how site speed correlates to search engine rankings. The findings are fittingly published on SEO-centric Moz.com.
URL: http://moz.com/blog/how-website-speed-actually-impacts-search-ranking
Performance Tuning the AirBnB way
The ‘nerds’ at AirBnB run though some of the steps and processes they used to reduce page load times.
The Ultimate Checklist for Optimizing Web Performance
Sometimes optimizing a website for speed can get complicated. Yottaa’s infographic on the main checklist items makes it easy.
Proving the value of caching
King of Speed, Steve Souders provides more ammunition to why he believes (and backing up with data) that proper caching is one of the single biggest contributors to increasing site speed.
URL: http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/10/11/cache-is-king/
Google Analytics adds enhanced Site Speed reporting
Google has gone from a single metric on website speed performance, to a more comprehensive report that covers an overview, as well as page timings. These reports are now also integrated into other areas of the wider Analytics toolset – such as Intelligence reports that can be configured to create custom alerts.
URL: http://analytics.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/measure-your-websites-performance-with.html
Yottaa launches a smarter CDN
Rather than pure distribution of web content, Yottaa is building in other site-speed technologies and methods to add a significant speed boost to sites that use it’s service.
Site Speed and Crawl Rate
If any proof was needed that speed had an impact on how Google treats your site, then this should be it.