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Google announced in 2010 that site speed had become a signal in its web-search ranking algorithms.

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Core Web Vitals: real factor, modest weight

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REPEATSGoogle site speed was asserted to be an official ranking factor already active for U.S. searchers in 2010.Under evaluation
NARROWSGoogle said the initial site-speed implementation affected fewer than 1% of queries and initially applied to English searches on Google.com.Under evaluation
NARROWSGoogle said its 2010 site-speed signal carried less weight than page relevance.Under evaluation
REPEATSGoogle announced that page speed would become a ranking factor for mobile searches in July 2018.Under evaluation

Release: seo-geo-product-v0.3 · Phase Two freeze: P2-CORE300-FINAL-v1.0 · Generated: 2026-08-23T08:01:40Z