Speed is considered one of many ranking factors. I think less because Google explicitly says "we will rank you higher if your site is faster" and more "the user behaviors we track will improve if your site is faster".
This is things like going from the SERP -> Site -> Back to the SERP.
That's implicitly telling Google that the site didn't satisfy their search intent and something they for sure track.
Maybe the user clicked back b/c the page didn't load fast enough, maybe the content was bad but either way it's a search quality signal.
I don't see anything of substance on this post. There is no explanation on how it was done.
Yeah, was kind of hoping for some tiling it GitHub links etc.
Aside, deploying to GitHub pages is definitely neat and fast AF of your site is hot/active... Otherwise first load can take a few seconds.
The title alone is indicative of a future without exorbitantly expensive Vercel and Netlify.
Vercel and Netlify charge 10,000x for a pretty UI and not much else. Their closed source nature even makes automation harder.
I'm hopeful we'll have a stack to give us the same experience and deploy to any provider soon.
> But in our world where speed is important for SEO,
I agree site speed is very important, but I don't buy into the SEO argument. Some of the most popular sites in the world take ages to load.
Speed is considered one of many ranking factors. I think less because Google explicitly says "we will rank you higher if your site is faster" and more "the user behaviors we track will improve if your site is faster".
This is things like going from the SERP -> Site -> Back to the SERP.
That's implicitly telling Google that the site didn't satisfy their search intent and something they for sure track.
Maybe the user clicked back b/c the page didn't load fast enough, maybe the content was bad but either way it's a search quality signal.
There's also a fixed amount of time google's crawler will spend indexing your site; the faster your pages load, the more of them will get indexed.
Search engines want to rank the most popular sites in the world. They won't rank ones that are slow and not high volume.