Google's Algorithm Includes Speed

From what I'm now reading, Google is finally coming out and saying that website speed will now become an important part of it's algorithm.  This means that speed will affect your rankings in Google.  In other words, a slow site will be punished.

read here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html

Why mention this here?

Making Dolphin 7 fast should be important to all of us.  I absolutely love this script, but speed is definitely not one of it's assets at the moment.

Why care about Google's algorithm?

Well, unless you plan to pay for all your visitors, ranking high for certain keywords is critical.  We can only assume that the other big search engines are either doing the same, or will be doing the same.  Let's be honest, this decision does make total sense.

A Fast Site Makes Everybody Happy!

All dolphin sites will utterly fail any speed test, the code and how and how many things loading alt= many seconds.  The solution, put up a splash page as your index.html page and have them land there first, now your site loads super fast!

I agree totally.  I will definitely be doing this very, very soon.  However, search engines look at every page of our site.

Question: What's the point of having the most incredible script ever if nobody can find it...cause it's buried way below all you lousy competitors.

you can also disable many things for guests on your site which makes the site faster and not too many errors in validator w3.org

the top menu with all submenu takes alot, also the designbox menu

i made the most only visible for members, so the site loads fast and has not so many errors

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a splash page is also a good idea

Also consider using a robot restriction file to keep them out of areas that are not content rich (basically everywhere except forums, blogs, text based areas).  All others areas of site will load slowly and have no real keywords so no reason for robots to see them.