{"id":379,"date":"2011-01-27T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2018-04-10T02:44:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T07:44:14","slug":"speed-up-your-website-or-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/27\/speed-up-your-website-or-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Wants YOU&#8230;To Speed Up Your Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s campaign to make the web faster puts some web masters in a tricky situation. When optimizing our sites for search engines, we are very used to doing the basic things such as having lots of great content and getting many high quality links. Now we must also consider another thing, and that is the speed of our websites. But how do you know how fast your website loads? And how do you make it load even faster<\/p>\n<p>The video tutorial below will touch upon these two questions and give you the answers you need. When you are done watching, you can read up more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/products\/optimize-web-sites.html\">WebCrusher<\/a> and see first hand how it can give you a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/products\/optimize-web-sites.html\">faster loading website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lctz_9rUcYY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video Transcript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did you know that one of Google&#8217;s criteria for ranking websites involves the speed of a website.\u00a0Many websites can load very slowly, and as a result, can be penalized by search engines.\u00a0There is a great way to check to see if your website is slow loading or not.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who have a <span class='wp_keywordlink'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/\" title=\"Google Webmaster Tools\">Google Webmaster Tools<\/a><\/span> account, you can get a good idea of what your website&#8217;s current speed is. In your Dashboard, press the plus sign next to Labs and select Site Performance. Here you will see the speed performance of your website.<\/p>\n<p>Google believes that anything that falls below 1 and a half seconds is considered to be fast. Anything slower than 1 and a half seconds is considered slow. The faster your site is, the better off you will be.<\/p>\n<p>So how can you reduce the load time of your website? RAGE <span class='wp_keywordlink'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/products\/webcrusher.html\" title=\"WebCrusher\">WebCrusher<\/a><\/span> will do this for you automatically, in the easiest way possible. Simply drag your website folder into <span class='wp_keywordlink'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/products\/webcrusher.html\" title=\"WebCrusher\">WebCrusher<\/a><\/span>, and at the click of just a few buttons, you can greatly reduce the size of your website. Be sure to check out WebCrusher and see how it can help speed up your website.<\/p>\n<p>For a full tutorial on using WebCrusher, please see the video tutorial available in the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/videos\/iweb-seo-video-tutorial.html\"> iWeb SEO<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/videos\/seo-video.html\">SEO Video<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/videos\/rapidweaver-seo.html\">RapidWeaver SEO<\/a> video courses. <!--codes_iframe--><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s campaign to make the web faster puts some web masters in a tricky situation. When optimizing our sites for search engines, we are very used to doing the basic things such as having lots of great content and getting many high quality links. 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