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How would googlebot measure page-load speed accurately? Wouldn't it be ignoring a slow site's cruft filled javascript and stylesheets?



The GoogleBot's aware of your cruft-filled javascript and stylesheet...


The Google toolbar


who uses google toolbar besides old IE users that need popup blockers? Seems like super high variance data depending on the end users connection, perhaps they get info from chrome usage statistics?


Dunno, but according to this article that's what they're doing: http://searchengineland.com/google-now-counts-site-speed-as-...

If every site is being judged by the same pool of toolbar users then it's fair, right? It's only the relative speed that matter.




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