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Not exact matches
Google is aware that
slow sites make for a poor user
experience, and because they can measure site speed with their crawls and poor user
experience by the number of people that immediately return to their results
pages after clicking on a link, site speed is an important ranking factor.
The
pages are a little
slow loading, but the richness of information and the impact of the
experiences these people endured make it worth the effort to wait and be immersed in their accounts!
Moving around a
page using the cursor and selecting links is
slow and the need to constantly zoom in and out with
page refreshing means it will never offer the user
experience that you'll get from a decent mobile phone browser.
«I almost was completely turned off on purchasing an e-reader from my
experience with the Nook, sure it looked pretty, it had the cool color touch screen at the bottom and a few other nice features but it felt so
slow, whenever you turn the
page it would flash black and a second or two later the next
page would show up.
With the Speed Update, Google states on the Webmaster Blog that
pages that deliver «the
slowest experience to users» will be affected.
Page speed optimization is important, and it's only going to get more important as time goes on because a
slow website provides a lousy
experience for users.
However, if a
page built with AMP provides a
slow experience to users, it may also rank lower in the results.
@Robert Perry - I'm not sure if the behavior I'm
experiencing is due to a fix you may have implemented for the issue I noted above, but using BP from the iPhone is now painfully
slow - whether it is clicking a link, reloading a BP
page, trying to see my notifications, opening a new browser window and even typing this short reply are all way too
slow to be useable.