Comments on: Google Crawls My Site 90% Faster: Why Speed Will Be Important on Google http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/google-crawls-faster-speed-performance-optimization/ Get to know David Kadavy Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:29:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: idont http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/google-crawls-faster-speed-performance-optimization/comment-page-1/#comment-2027 idont Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:51:58 +0000 http://www.kadavy.net/?p=1119#comment-2027 I did not noticed any difference on my stats. I usually have good figures which make few room for optimisation in absolute value: - Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds): 203 (average) - On average, pages in your site take 1.0 seconds to load (updated on Apr 26, 2010). This is faster than 90% of sites. [...] I did not noticed any difference on my stats.

I usually have good figures which make few room for optimisation in absolute value:
- Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds): 203 (average)
- On average, pages in your site take 1.0 seconds to load (updated on Apr 26, 2010). This is faster than 90% of sites. [...]

]]> By: kadavy http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/google-crawls-faster-speed-performance-optimization/comment-page-1/#comment-2025 kadavy Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:34:53 +0000 http://www.kadavy.net/?p=1119#comment-2025 Hey Brian - by "resources" I mean time & money (I've had to explain this a couple of times now, so I updated the post for clarification). Ultimately, Google can crawl more of a fast site with their resources (time & money), and when users get there, Google makes more money because of higher CTR on the ads. But yeah, user experience fits into that, too. Hey Brian – by “resources” I mean time & money (I’ve had to explain this a couple of times now, so I updated the post for clarification).

Ultimately, Google can crawl more of a fast site with their resources (time & money), and when users get there, Google makes more money because of higher CTR on the ads. But yeah, user experience fits into that, too.

]]> By: Brian Armstrong http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/google-crawls-faster-speed-performance-optimization/comment-page-1/#comment-2024 Brian Armstrong Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:23:57 +0000 http://www.kadavy.net/?p=1119#comment-2024 This is great info. Just want to point out that because a page loads faster doesn't mean it uses less resources to index. Bandwidth, CPU, and memory would all be the same either way. The crawling process would just be waiting for the page to return longer - so the cpu would be working on other processes while it waited. It's likely Google gives a ranking bonus to faster sites, but this is probably just because humans prefer fast sites. Good article though! Didn't mean to be nit picky :) This is great info. Just want to point out that because a page loads faster doesn’t mean it uses less resources to index. Bandwidth, CPU, and memory would all be the same either way. The crawling process would just be waiting for the page to return longer – so the cpu would be working on other processes while it waited.

It’s likely Google gives a ranking bonus to faster sites, but this is probably just because humans prefer fast sites. Good article though! Didn’t mean to be nit picky :)

]]> By: kadavy http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/google-crawls-faster-speed-performance-optimization/comment-page-1/#comment-2023 kadavy Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:15:46 +0000 http://www.kadavy.net/?p=1119#comment-2023 Hey Amit - I actually saw results pretty quickly. You can see on that Website Optimizer graph that I put up that the reflection of the changes was somewhat gradual, but I attribute that to some DNS issues that I had, and some tweaking that I was doing. It definitely seems strange that you still haven't seen results, and I'm assuming that your own benchmarks are showing an improvement. Hey Amit – I actually saw results pretty quickly. You can see on that Website Optimizer graph that I put up that the reflection of the changes was somewhat gradual, but I attribute that to some DNS issues that I had, and some tweaking that I was doing.

It definitely seems strange that you still haven’t seen results, and I’m assuming that your own benchmarks are showing an improvement.

]]> By: Amit Gupta http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/google-crawls-faster-speed-performance-optimization/comment-page-1/#comment-2021 Amit Gupta Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:52:12 +0000 http://www.kadavy.net/?p=1119#comment-2021 I'm curious David — how quickly did you see Google webmaster tools reflect your page load improvements? We've done some optimizations recently (it's been a few weeks) but haven't seen an impact on our graph, and webmaster tools makes the same suggestions for page speed improvements it did before (many of which we've already implemented.) Amit I’m curious David — how quickly did you see Google webmaster tools reflect your page load improvements?

We’ve done some optimizations recently (it’s been a few weeks) but haven’t seen an impact on our graph, and webmaster tools makes the same suggestions for page speed improvements it did before (many of which we’ve already implemented.)

Amit

]]> By: steve http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/google-crawls-faster-speed-performance-optimization/comment-page-1/#comment-2017 steve Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:50:04 +0000 http://www.kadavy.net/?p=1119#comment-2017 Very nice spot, thank you. Time to kick a few bits to optimise. Very nice spot, thank you. Time to kick a few bits to optimise.

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