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How would googlebot measure page-load speed accurately? Wouldn't it be ignoring a slow site's cruft filled javascript and stylesheets?

• eli 17y ago
  The Google toolbar
  • metamemetics 17y ago
    who uses google toolbar besides old IE users that need popup blockers? Seems like super high variance data depending on the end users connection, perhaps they get info from chrome usage statistics?
    • eli 17y ago
      Dunno, but according to this article that's what they're doing: http://searchengineland.com/google-now-counts-site-speed-as-ranking-factor-39708 http://searchengineland.com/google-now-counts-site-speed-as-... If every site is being judged by the same pool of toolbar users then it's fair, right? It's only the relative speed that matter.
• nostrademons 17y ago
  The GoogleBot's aware of your cruft-filled javascript and stylesheet...