Yes, speed is now a factor in google's algorithm and there are so many things that you can do to speed your website.

• Enable gzip compression on your site – this compresses files for download to a browser then un compacts them as they load. Makes for much faster browsing.
• remove unnecessary lines of html from your site.
• compress all images.
• Compress and combine your style sheet and javascript file so they are in one, smaller file.
• So many, many more things.

The reality is… 99% of more web designers ignore these steps. their job is to get you a great looking, great functioning website. Pandering to Google's new desire to make website work faster… that's a lot of extra work that the client can't really see or value paying for. To do it, the web developer would need to charge a higher price than 99% of their competitors – so they don't bother.

If you want your website to rank well, as well as it possibly can, not stone in the Google mountain can go unturned.

The SEOGuys can speed up your website and in turn speed up you rankings.

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