In the third episode of SEO Mythbusting season 2, Martin Splitt (Developer Advocate, Google) and Eric Enge (General Manager of Digital, Perficient) discuss the most common SEO questions and myths around page speed.
Specific timestamped topics discussed in this episode:
The general misconception about page speed & ranking (0:00)
Why is page speed important? (1:57)
Page speed vs content relevancy (3:00)
Average vs recommended web page size (4:54)
Page speed optimization (5:48)
The intricacies of Lighthouse reports, data, and scores (7:44)
Page speed on the different user devices and connections (9:18)
Page speed, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), and Progressive Web Apps (PWA) (11:36)
More on page speed as a factor in Google Search ranking (13:06)
Documentation mentioned in this episode:
Evaluating page experience → https://goo.gle/2ZOnBd3
Why performance matters → https://goo.gle/3hmaHJh
Mobile page speed – industry benchmarks → https://goo.gle/3joze29
Lazy loading → https://goo.gle/30wEGYh
Lighthouse → https://goo.gle/3jqspgD
Chrome User Experience Report → https://goo.gle/2WHxLdP
Progressive Web Apps → https://goo.gle/3fQ95XQ
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