This was a very informative post. I honestly did not know how Google factored in speed. It makes total sense too because they want the user to get results returned quickly. I’ll have to take this into consideration and check with my hosting provider speeds. Thanks for sharing.

I have advised my clients for years to get the lightest possible page for crawlers to be able to go through the page as fast as possible.

what’s unfortunate is that this parameter is going to give an advantage to the “rich” websites with a good bandwidth…