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Site speed

Site speed

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Site speed

- [Narrator] Google has to fetch dozens and sometimes hundreds of various resources all across your website and these can add up to many megabytes of data. Google's dream is for websites to load near-instantaneously and we've seen them push for that quest through projects such as AMP, but instantaneous load isn't just great for SEO, it's great for the user too so it's incredibly important that you invest the necessary time and energy to optimize the efficiency of your site. Now, speed optimization is a robust topic. We could easily spend a few hours detailing all of the approaches, but we're not going to get into that level of detail today. Instead, I'm going to point you to the right resources and give you the high-level overview of how to go about getting your site loading faster. Now, I often get asked, "How am I doing in relation to the rest of the web?" And to give you a sense of how you stack up, you can look at benchmarks from HTTP Archive. I'm here at…

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