Comments on: Slow Website Penalized By Google?

By: Andrew @ Blogging Guide

Andrew @ Blogging Guide — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:23:59 +0000

Morten,

It only takes a second for each image and you can do several at a time.

Andrew

By: Croatia Holiday

Croatia Holiday — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:03:52 +0000

@Andrew, ok so there is no short cut, i have to Smush each picture, manually.

I am not sure, i have the energy to do so (-:

Morten

By: Andrew @ webuildyourblog.com

Andrew @ webuildyourblog.com — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:16:01 +0000

Morten

After installing the Smush It plugin, go to your Media library form within your dashboard and ‘smush’ each image – that should redcue the size.

Andrew

By: Croatia Holiday

Croatia Holiday — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:56:16 +0000

@Case, i will test out the cache plugin and see if it brings anything, I meanwhile removed the stattpress plugin that turned out to be a real killer.

@Andrew, is there and easy way to get Smush IT to optimize all the images i already have on the page?

Brgds, Morten

By: Pehchan

Pehchan — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:03:11 +0000

No doubt having a slow website is not. But i am not sure if Google penalize you for that. They give credit to pages that loads faster as it decreases the load on their servers. Yes in future they might start penalizing slow loading websites.
I am not clear about one point in new site performance feature in Google Webmaster where it compares my website with other websites on internet and gives my performance.

We have to look for better CMS system where page load time is one of the top priorities.

By: Randy Pierce

Randy Pierce — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:23:01 +0000

This was a great article, informative. I did not catch whether Google intentionally slowed down your site or not though.

I have heard that they are using a different algorithm to decided who gets ranked better and page load or speed is part of that algorithm in Google Caffiene.

Randy
http://cheaparticles.info/

By: tommy

tommy — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:43:03 +0000

really penalized?
how about https site?
godaddy, paypal and others https site their page load very slow but it’s almost impossible to penalized them.

By: Case Stevens

Case Stevens — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:37:36 +0000

You have to make your website loading fast, not your servers.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:04:56 +0000

I hope google does not implement this as it will push the smaller websites that cannot afford fast servers to the bottom of the rankings.

By: Andrew @ webuildyourblog.com

Andrew @ webuildyourblog.com — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:13:30 +0000

@ Croatia Holidays. Smush IT also optimized some of the images I had already optimized (or thought I had!).

Andrew

By: Case Stevens

Case Stevens — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:36:07 +0000

I don’t feel qualified to answer your exact question Morten. But since caching temporarily stores retrieved data to prevent it from being retrieved again unnecessary, it seems to me that you only need a few visitors to the same page to be profitable.
But the plugin goes well beyond that. It does a lot more than just caching to optimize page load times. And that’s what makes this one so powerful.

By: Croatia Holiday

Croatia Holiday — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:04:52 +0000

@Case: from what number from daily page views or visitor would it benefit to install the Cache plugin, or is that something which one might setup from the beginning.

@Andrew, i also installed the Smush IT, which is great plugin if you have lots of pictures, and don’t optimize them before like Case does.

Morten

By: Case Stevens

Case Stevens — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:27:43 +0000

Just follow the various Google blogs.

By: Rick Gold

Rick Gold — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:48:22 +0000

What is the best way to stay up to date on what Google penalizes for or the new rules they implement? Is there a way to sign up for updates to be emailed or a forum to join?

Im new to this and any information on how to stay ahead of the curve would be great.

By: Dmitri Markine

Dmitri Markine — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:42:03 +0000

Well, a lot of websites these days have splash pages. Because of that people are basically clicking off the first page and your analytics may show 00:00 or so. I don’t think this can really hurt,but it does make sense since for most site it would be an indicator of a bad/wrong visited website