Page Speed: Let’s talk about it!
If this is your website page speed, we need to talk.
OK, let’s talk about page speed. and how it affects your business website.
You probably spent a lot of time and money getting your business off the ground, and part of that was getting your website built and launched. Good Job! An online presence is one of the most important ways consumers will find out about your business.
I am sure your website looks amazing. You want to impress people with your business, and a good-looking website is sure to impress. But what happens if your bright and shiny website is slow to load fully? People are going to leave, and just as bad, the search engines will start lowering your placement in search results. All this proves that page speed is really important. Your website needs some SEO, which stands for search engine optimization.
Let’s see some results.
Let’s take a look at the website for North Fork Business Solutions: https://www.northfork.tech.
Not bad! Simple but pleasing design, informative, and the pages load really fast. Here is our score from Google’s PageSpeed Insights:
94/100 is a great score! How fast is your website?
As you can see, this website ranks at 94% on the PageSpeed test, which Google considers to be very fast. Now we could have added more bells and whistles and slideshows and all kinds of really amazing visual eye-candy, but if you are anything like me, in 2019 if you have to wait for a page to load or even worse a single image to load, you are likely to close the site and look somewhere else. Do you want to risk losing business because your amazing looking website that you spent all this time and money on is too slow loading for potential customers? Page speed is REALLY IMPORTANT if you want to rank on Google and the other search engines.
North Fork Business Solutions takes page speed seriously. You should too! Whether you are looking for a comprehensive Search Engine Optimization package, or just a little help with page speed, we can help. Contact us today for a free quote.
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