Recently the signals from google that page load speeds plays a more and more important role as a ranking factor were quite clear.
This lead to quite a few people asking whether page speed might even be more important than relevance.
Well – page speed is one out of more than 200 factors important for ranking.
Listen to what Matt cutts can tell us about it:
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Thanks Michael for providing very good video and it is really useful to improve page load speed.
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I will always choose relevance over page speed. Whatever the speed be to load a page, if the page is not useful, people will firstly not visit it and even if they do they will leave it faster than ever. So relevance always score big on my ladder of priority. Relevant matter is always what readers want and are searching for, they do not mind waiting for a long time for the page to load if the matter is relevant to what they are looking out for.
Difficult to say, but one should aim at getting best results possible for both criteria.
As for me, I am aware of this requirement, and I put 90 to 95 % quality photos on my site, just to speed it up
Interesting topic you have there. Thank you for sharing this very helpful video about boosting page load speed. Again, thank you!
The answer to this one is obviously relevance, what else could it be. Page load speed is just a crazy fancy that many people have. What benefit would page speed have in comparison to relevance. If a site is not relevant you will not visit it and the page load speed then will not matter at all, it will not be a contender at all for discussion in such a scenario.