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Google is going to penalize advertisers in their Google Adwords program. The main purpose of this new rule is to continuing improve the user experience. Advertisers with slow landing page will be penalize by Google. They will incorporate this aspect into its Quality Score very soon, maybe in next few weeks.

So if you want to advertise with Google Adwords, make sure your landing page is fast enough. Use my website speed test tool to check your page loading time. If your landing page load too slow, users might abandon your website even if Google do not penalize you.

How to Load Landing Page Faster?

There are few tips to improve your page load time:

• Use fewer redirects.
• Reduce the page size by using fewer, smaller, and more highly-compressed images.
• Do not use empty pages. Minimize the use of iframes on your landing page.
• Subscribe to better web hosting provider.

Even if you are not advertising with Google, my advice is you still need to improve your loading time. Visitors are more comfortable with fast loading website and then willing to stay longer. This definitely increase your page view. (more…)

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Sometime we just decorate too much for our blog. This make our blog drive like a truck with 1.3CC horse power only. It is exstremely slow and make us lose our readers. Even I myself also don’t like to wait minutes for a blog to load finish. Sometime I just close it as soon as I read finish for huge loading blog.

So, how do you determine your blog loading speed? Use website speed test to test your blog loading speed and size.

As screenshot below, I have compared my blog speed and size with others probloggers. From the chart, you notice my blog loaded 45.45KB in 0.5 second. I am satisfied with this fast speed and small size. I have the smallest size compared to others. I tried to maintain this small size because I do not have dedicated server and my blog package was counted by transfer byte! Further more, my readers will happy to see my blog load fast.:)

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