Google’s upcoming transition to mobile-first indexing, combined with its raised expectation of mobile site performance, should convince site owners to consider static site generation. Contributor Chris Liversidge explains. Chris Liversidge on August 23, 2017 Google has raised the bar on site load times consistently over the last decade, and the upcoming transition to mobile-first … Continue reading Load time, static site generators & SEO: How we lowered our own site’s load time by 74%
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Your Site’s Long Load Time Is Suffocating Your Facebook Ad Revenue
Amanda Oliver — June 21, 2017 — June 21, 2017 Just like in Jaws, there’s something lurking beneath the surface of your conversion rates and affecting your return on ad spend. It has nothing to do with your copy, creative, or offers but it’s turning your customers away in droves just the same. What is … Continue reading Your Site’s Long Load Time Is Suffocating Your Facebook Ad Revenue
The most important thing to know about Facebook’s ad load problem
When Facebook’s CFO talks about a maxed-out ad load slowing advertising revenue growth, he’s only referring to Facebook’s news feed ad load. Tim Peterson on May 3, 2017 For almost a year, Facebook has warned that sometime in the middle of 2017 the social network will max out the number of ads it can … Continue reading The most important thing to know about Facebook’s ad load problem
How to Decrease Page Load Time On Your Website [Infographic]
Nadya Khoja — April 5, 2017 Follow @nadyakhoja— April 5, 2017 Having a slow-loading website can strongly harm the overall user experience, and as a result your site’s rankings in organic search. Continuously working towards improving your site’s load time should be a priority if you want to ensure that people keep coming back to … Continue reading How to Decrease Page Load Time On Your Website [Infographic]
4 Ways to Take the Load off Your Small Business
Jaime Nacach — March 22, 2017 Follow @bloominari— March 22, 2017 If you’re feeling the strain of the daily grind in running a business, you’re not alone. Many entrepreneurs and small business owners try to take on too much, which can end up negatively affecting the business in the long run. Marketing Automation Helps You … Continue reading 4 Ways to Take the Load off Your Small Business
Many Visitors Abandon Mobile Sites If Load Time Tops 3 Seconds
by Laurie Sullivan@lauriesullivan, September 9, 2016 The average load time for mobile sites is 19 seconds when running on 3G connections, which Google says is “about as long as it takes to sing the entire alphabet song.” Some 77% of mobile sites take longer than 10 seconds to load when running on 3G networks. On 4G … Continue reading Many Visitors Abandon Mobile Sites If Load Time Tops 3 Seconds
Facebook pressures advertisers to cut mobile page load speeds or it’ll cut their reach
Facebook wants to make mobile ad links load faster, so it will start pre-loading them and push advertisers to make them load even quicker. Tim Peterson on August 31, 2016 Fotos593 / Shutterstock.com Facebook has sent out a warning to advertisers: Cut down the time it takes to load your webpages, or we’ll cut the … Continue reading Facebook pressures advertisers to cut mobile page load speeds or it’ll cut their reach
How Does Page Load Time Impact Engagement?
by Oliver Palmer July 17, 2016July 17, 2016 Google’s recent introduction of AMP and Facebook’s Instant Articles (both of which claim to be able to deliver news articles up to 10x faster than the ordinary mobile web) are a wake-up call to newspapers and other publishers around the world. Both of these initiatives have been … Continue reading How Does Page Load Time Impact Engagement?
Page Load Speed: 15 Ways to Boost SEO
by Nora Flint February 23, 2016February 23, 2016 Over the course of the past few years, most of Google’s updates to its search ranking algorithm have been aimed at providing better user experience to website users. Excellent user experience not only helps increase conversion once visitors come to your website, but it also boosts your … Continue reading Page Load Speed: 15 Ways to Boost SEO
Improving Website Load Speed May Increase Page Rank
by Dave Smitherson February 1, 2016 Follow @advertzonesFebruary 1, 2016 Matt Cutts has long cleared speculation that site speed isn’t “a major” vindicating influence affecting page ranking for both web and portable websites last August. Page ranking, however, is treated as the lifeblood of all SEOs since there’s something liberating about having that number closest … Continue reading Improving Website Load Speed May Increase Page Rank