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Comment by StephenConnell | Hacker News Reader

If hacker news had a speed rating next to the links I would probably click on them more instead of just reading the comments to decide if it's worth pulling up an article.

Note, It has been suggested that a speed rating on Google would be equivalent to the amp experience with less Google control.

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Speed also depends on where you are geographically. Amazon.com is probably faster than Taobao.com in the States, but I'd have the opposite experience over here in China. But then Google is the slowest this side of the GFW, so that might be redundant.

True, but Google knows where you are and could test the site from that general region. It would cause additional overhead for Google but may be worth it.

Page render speed is just as important as server speed. A website bloated with ads is what I object to the most, or any type of pop over that obstructs the content.

I wonder whether they incorporate these things into their ranking metrics already, similar to how they do their Quality Scores for Adwords.

Good question, in 2010 Google said that they "... today we're including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed. Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests." [1]

I believe that page speed is also important, google provides PageSpeed Insights to help you improve your site. [2]

[1] https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-i...

[2] PageSpeed Insights https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

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