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Because users want relevant search results much more than fast websites. Google already factors in a website's performance in their rankings, but weighing it to
by themacguffinman 8y ago
Because users want relevant search results much more than fast websites. Google already factors in a website's performance in their rankings, but weighing it too much over content relevance will make search results worse.
- pdkl95 8y agoIf they actually cared that much about making the results "relevant", they wouldn't mix a bunch of irrelevant suggestions into the results page, each marked with "missing: <query_term>" pointing out exactly how they ignored part of the user's request.
- mtberatwork 8y agoBy that logic then, what's the point of AMP if Google is saying page load speeds aren't really that big of a factor? Why go through through the trouble of deriving a whole new subset of HTML?
- themacguffinman 8y agoI discuss this in another reply chain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19681408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19681408