Thread: Google to rank sites by speed.

Quote from: Primefalcon on November 15, 2009, 09:56:19 PM Divs and such but if your dealing with a lot of content it can add a lot especialy if your got large xml style documents, but images and such are more what I thinking, it all adds to download time They may increase on page speed then, but little-content pages will remain at the bottom of results due to having little valuable content.

Quote from: darrenbeige on November 15, 2009, 07:23:46 PM Quote from: Primefalcon on November 15, 2009, 06:44:09 PM true, very true... what I meant was sites with minimal markup and very low presentational elements.... that can add a huge amount to size of downloads I don't particularly think the impact of a very extra <div's> is that large, but to Google it obviously does. This is the company that endorses the...

Well, Google does own a OCR aid (reCaptcha) and also one of the leading OCR technologies (Tesseract)

It doesn't have to OCR anything; it just has to download all the linked documents. And oh, this means AJAX == win.

I assume it'l use the current ranking scheme but then rank again by speed,  so 2 sites that would get 5 now for example, the slower one would get 4 and the faster one would get 5

 It seems that Google may be looking at ranking sites by their loading speed starting next year!   http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/11/13/google-page-speed-may-be-a-ranking-factor-in-2010  This seems crazy to me as when I search the net I'm looking for content not how fast a page loads unless it's really slow.   Graham.   http://sunsetmotel.110MB.com

i dont think it will have a huge effect on the present rankings anyway because most high ranking sites load fast.

Wonder when they'll start OCRing images on sites and taking that into ranking account also.

Quote from: andre on Today at 09:00:31 AM Wonder when they'll start OCRing images on sites and taking that into ranking account also. Wow. The sad part is, that seems completely plausible.

It doesn't have to OCR anything; it just has to download all the linked documents. And oh, this means AJAX == win.