Yea, we are seeing the technical speed as the metric used. With the load speed reported as being the time when the entire site loads, rather than the time it takes for the user to visually see what they would consider a "fully loaded" page.
What's Your Mobile Page Speed? It's Now Becoming an Official Google Ranking Factor
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Yea, we are seeing the technical speed as the metric used. With the load speed reported as being the time when the entire site loads, rather than the time it takes for the user to visually see what they would consider a "fully loaded" page.
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Yes, that is correct. We spoke with the Google Page Speed team and they confirmed this a few months back. Additionally, most companies that do a "speed test" are using a 3G emulator. I don't know anyone who is on a 3G network in the US (maybe Cricket??). The US Network is 90% 4G and 5G networks will be rolling out this year. If you are going to utilize these speed tests then have a benchmark outside of Automotive, like Youtube.com, etc. and see where they rank.
The best speed test out there is with you everyday... your eyeballs
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There are limitation with AMP pages:
- No JavaScript allowed except an off-the-shelf AMP library
- Images are done with lazy load functionality meaning they will load only when you scroll down to them
- A streamlined version of your Cascading Style Sheets will be necessary
- Cannot track user activity on AMP pages
- Not suitable for e-commerce sites
https://searchengineland.com/google...5TnIwbnZpcFlSSURjUFB0TCszMkEyeUlQT1RiQzROIn0=
While in discussion of Google rankings...This is going to have a pretty big impact on alot of sites!
While in discussion of Google rankings...This is going to have a pretty big impact on alot of sites!
Interesting. This means that the mobile site will be used for indexing, even if you have an AMP site.
Will have to evaluate the impact of this.
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The news part is that they're moving mores sites over.
They were previously only doing sites that were essentially 100% responsive with identical desktop and mobile sites.
This meant that vendors with adaptive or mixed mobile experiences haven't been switched over, but now they might be.
I've seen a number of vendors with stripped down mobile sites, so this could be news for them.
They were previously only doing sites that were essentially 100% responsive with identical desktop and mobile sites.
This meant that vendors with adaptive or mixed mobile experiences haven't been switched over, but now they might be.
I've seen a number of vendors with stripped down mobile sites, so this could be news for them.
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Right, but all along Google stance has been that they "prefer" Responsive sites, but would gladly accept Adaptive and m.'s. Oh, there is probably still thousands of automotive sites that aren't fully responsive, no doubt. I run into them all of the time in putting our tags on their sites and creating goals for them in GA. :-|
Looks like they have edited that area: https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/ and https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/responsive-design
Interesting to see that this page exists: https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/separate-urls
Looks like they have edited that area: https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/ and https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/responsive-design
Interesting to see that this page exists: https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/separate-urls
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This is 100% true. We spoke to the Google Speed Test team a few months back and they confirmed that they are not really testing the actual speed of the page, but the way the page is built and assigning a "time" to it as a grade. Additionally, the other sites that say they are testing mobile speed test are actually using a 3G emulator - Who is on 3G these days in the US? 5G is rolling out this year and 4G will overtake 3G worldwide in the next 12 months.
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Are any of you guys using LightHouse (Chrome Dev Tools Audit feature) to audit your site and to clean up some of the issues? Or, is most everyone using the Page Speed Insights and Test My site with Google???
