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The Need For Speed. That is Website Speed.No, we shouldn't have the need for speed while behind the wheel of our car. Speed however should be a concern for your website. It is a factored in the search algorithm and it is a search engine optimization (SEO) factor that you can do something about. Google offers tools for testing and gives you recommendations on how to address the issues. I’m a big believer in doing your best to make your website show quickly to the user.
Read this article this article “Google Claims Core Web Vitals Saved Over 10,000 Years In Load Times” on Search Engine Journal.
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What are you thinking? Websites that keep content loading as you scrollI don’t know who the genius is behind the sites that keeps loading content as you scroll down the page (known as lazy loading or infinite scrolling). Just don’t do it. Some sites are just making the content look like it loads, but others do load it on the fly. I get the idea of just loading part of the site on the fly, so that the user will see the page quicker. The problem is it doesn’t make sense to keep loading the page as you scroll down it.
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Mobile first doesn't just mean a responsive websiteYour website might be responsive, but is it really built with mobile devices in mind? Google has moved to a mobile first indexing. They’ve moved to looking at how your site performs on a mobile device over a desktop computer. So when building a website you need to think mobile first. That doesn’t mean just making sure your site scales down to display on a small screen.
Like what I wrote in my previous post, “What happened to caring about website performance?,” you need to really consider performance.
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What happened to caring about website performance?Do people creating websites not care about website performance or do they not really know about it? I can not remember this not ever being a concern for me, since starting web development over 17 years ago. Yes, things have changed over the years like faster bandwidth, improvement in cell phones, but so has individuals attention span.
In the early days bandwidth was a big bottle neck to be of concern with your site performance. Then smartphones came on the market and again the concern about data usage along with bandwidth came into the equation along with other concerns like getting your website to look good on a small screen again.
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