Is Load website speed really important for SEO?

Who can show me how to improve my load speed of my website? And the effect of it on SEO?

There are a few online tools you can use to check your website speed and they all give ideas as to what you can do to improve the speed.

https://gtmetrix.com

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Low speed light can reduce your audience and ultimately due low traffic SEO will be affected.
You can check your site’s speed by using various free online tools like:
Pingdom
GT Metrix

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Your website loading speed definitely affects your SEO. Usually a website has to load within 2 to 3 seconds. If it is not loading in 2 to 3 seconds of time bounce rate will be increased. It hurts our rankings in Search Engines.

You can check your website loading speed in any of the free tools and get some tips and techniques there to improve your website loading speed. You have to follow all those techniques and sure you will get some good results.

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Partly right, but partly wrong.
A slow site can affect bounce rate by repelling visitors. But bounce rate does not affect your ranking. Though really the ranking is not the important point here, the fact you are repelling real visitors is important. Real visitors are more important than search bots. Search bots don’t spend money with your business and buy from your site, real people do.
The sooner people stop obsessing over pleasing bots, and start thinking about real visitors, the better.

But it is true that Google does use page speed as one of its ranking factors. So yes, it affects SEO and more importantly it affects UX.

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While page speed is important to Google and for your rankings, it does also impact your user experience.

Web Site speed is help full. Fast speed is better then law speed. very slow speed is also harmful and affacted on seo.

The website speed should be a priority as slow sites decrease customer satisfaction and research has shown that an improvement in site speed can increase conversions.

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Speed optomization can have huge impact on rankings if you now have really slow website. But if your website don’t actually have problems with page loading the impact can be invisible, unless your visitors appreciate it.

There are lots on-page seo you can do to increase your page speed…
See article of moz what are different factor that affect the page speed of a site

I agree. The website speed is really important, the slower it is the more people will leave the website and search for another one even if they didn’t get the info that they want. Slow speed can throw people off.

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