Page speed has been a ranking factor for desktop searches since April 2010, but it was never officially a ranking factor for mobile searches (despite what we’ve all suspected for a long time). Not until July 2018, that is, when Google rolled out the Speed Update. Google’s pushing for a faster mobile experience The Speed […]
Here at Search Engine Watch we have covered the evolution of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) across numerous posts since the project’s launch in earnest in 2016. The Google-led framework gives web developers the means to optimize their sites for faster, cleaner, and more efficient delivery on mobile. Of course, this is good for user experience
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Yesterday, Google announced a major upcoming change to its mobile ranking algorithm. In a short blog post entitled ‘Using page speed in mobile search ranking’, it explained that starting in July 2018, page speed will officially be a ranking factor for mobile searches. The catchily-named “Speed Update” (a feat of inventive naming on a par
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The right picture is very useful on mobile and responsive websites. But images that are too large, too numerous and unnecessary simply slow down page load times and get in the way of the users reading and doing what they need to do. The problem: the size of webpages sent to mobile phones has quadrupled in
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