IS YOUR WEBSITE SPEED HURTING YOUR SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION?

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IS YOUR WEBSITE SPEED HURTING YOUR SEARCH ENGINE
OPTIMIZATION?
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• Youve been there right? Youve typed in the URL
  you want to go to youve clicked the link the
  screen turns white and you wait. One two three
  four finally the website appears, but you were
  just about to click on to another destination.
  Your websites load time can have a very
  significant impact on your website traffic, your
  bounce rate (the number of people who bounce to
  another site before engaging with yours), and
  your conversions. Lets face it, people are
  impatient when they are browsing the web, and if
  your website is slow, they will move on to one
  that isnt. If you are using your website with
  the focus being to sell something or to generate
  conversions, it is critical that your website is
  finely tuned. Check out these statistics from the
  the Wired Magazine Blog.

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• 47 of consumers expect a web page to load in 2
  seconds or less.
• 40 abandon websites that take more than 3
  seconds to load.
• 79 of shoppers who are a dissatisfied with
  website performance are less likely to buy from
  same site again.
• 52 of online shoppers state that quick page
  loading is important to their site loyalty.
• As little as 1 second of delay decreases customer
  satisfaction by about 16 every second counts
• 44 of online shoppers will tell their friends
  about a bad experience online..

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• You should also consider that Google has stated
  on more than one occasion that the speed of a
  website has an impact on search engine rankings
  (spoiler alert slow websites rank lower than
  fast websites). This can impact both your organic
  search engine rankings and also your
  pay-per-click Google AdWords campaigns if your
  business or organization is running those.
  Interested in checking your websites speed? Its
  easy to do just visit Google Metrics or Pingdom
  tools for a quick and easy test of your websites
  current speed.

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