I read this article and don't know if it will be good or bad for us.

 

It looks like Google caffeine will use page load time as a factor for sites being listed. The time listed in the article is 3 seconds. 3 seconds in this day and age is slow so it shouldn't hurt too bad. It's just interesting that Google is going this way. Now we'll have one thing to worry about when we optimize our sites for Google.

 

I can see it now. We'll have stop watches out timing our page loads so that Google doesn't penalize us.

It may good but does this mean sometimes when hosts are slow, it will hurt us?

That is what it sounds like. If the host is slow the page might be dropped.

I'm not sure they'll drop the page or site, as much as not give it any sort of extra ranking. Google is in the data collection business, and dropping sites and information from their index wouldn't be beneficial to them. I remember when I proposed this idea back in early 2009 that page load speeds, and bounce rates will start to effect rankings and was pretty much laughed at though :D.

 

Also, don't bust out your stop watch, simply sign up for Google Webmaster Tools, verify your domain, and give it a few days and you'll be able to see the Time Spent Downloading (in milliseconds) from the crawl stats. My math maybe off :D but anything higher than 3,000 to 5,000 milliseconds is probably trouble.

 

Currently my IPB forum is averaging a super low download time. I can't tell you the exact numbers on it because the previous owner had it on a horrible host that had over 12 second download times, since then though I'm estimating this graph to be showing about a 1,000 millisecond time frame for downloading.

I am a newbie to SEO, but I'm a business owner with a poor web site (so I'm told), but I managed to fall into a great team that's helped me so I wanted to share everything I learned some things SEO forums for me.

at the end of the day content of the site matters

at the end of the day content of the site matters

You are so right. Good content leads to good ranking.

this is indeed news to me

at the end of the day content of the site matters

Here and ago completely different! It was very wonderful!