Tuesday, 16 March 2010 06:55

Enhance SEO and site loading time using Google’s Page Speed

Written by Chris Jacoby


Many websites today increasingly face problems when it comes to Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). SEO is becoming more and more advanced everyday where a search engine, like Google, not only checks the title, description and meta tags, but also analyses the whole document of your website for the size of your code, duplicate keywords and content, alt tags on your images and much more.

I have come across a very handy tool to use to help increase your website’s performance and SEO by focusing more on the code structure of your website. *To use this tool effectively you do require some HTML knowledge and is generally used by a webmaster and web developer.

By using Google’s Page Speed you can help make your website load faster, allowing a visitor to your website a more user friendly browsing experience that will lower your site’s bounce rate and increase the time spent on your site. Page Speed evaluates the performance from the client’s point of view, showing you the different problems they experience and options to help improve their experience that you apply to your website’s code.


Page Speed evaluates your website’s pages in conformance to a number of different rules. There rules are mostly front-end based to your site so you can apply them at any of the development of your website. To learn more about the different rules and steps you can take please visit Page Speed’s Best Practices web page.
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For more information and to get started, visit Page Speed’s website.
Last modified on Wednesday, 17 March 2010 08:34
Chris Jacoby

Chris Jacoby

Chris is an Information Systems Engineer who has great experience with the online web world. His strengths lie in website application development, user friendly website design and development, graphics design and website optimization. 

Nothing is impossible! ~Chris


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1 Comment

  • Comment Link Ralph Richardson Wednesday, 17 March 2010 10:24 posted by Ralph Richardson

    This is a great post, thanks Chris - very helpful! I've found that page speed is becoming a major issuse with a lot of sites.

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