Site Speed and Load Time Now a Factor in Your Search Engine Strategy

Google has always rewarded websites that focused on usability and didn’t try to spam search engines. Until now though, a fast loading and optimized website was simply a benefit to the user and did’t effect your search engine rankings whatsoever. This is no longer the case as Google has stated on their blog that they now factor in page speed into their algorithm. This is a huge deal because even though the benefit it small, this means that lean, CSS based web designs are going to benefit greatly from this. Many businesses still have their websites coded using table based code which was heavily used in the late 1990′s and early 2000′s. At RiverView, webpages that we build are always CSS based, so if you are in need a of redesign or fresh new look, you can be confident that the website we provide to you will take full advantage of the new benefit Google is giving to fast loading web pages.