I was just reading Matt Cutts blog and he reminded me about google’s site speed factors – which now (possibly) affecting page rank in search engines. This led me to jump into webmaster tools for my primary site: http://www.simple1300numbers.com.au and check its load time. Its 3.3 seconds – which according to google is in the top 50% of webpages. It also lists some suggestions on what I can do to improve it, mainly some compression to reduce transfer time.
Just a quick disclaimer – backup your site before doing this. I accidently deleted my css and javascript files a few times so just be safe. Also, make sure you correct your paths as needed.
I decided to do what I could to help the load time, so according to my own results in the Net report in firebug, it takes 4.1 seconds to load the front page.
