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Look Ma, No CDN! (jade.ellis.link)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, it's always a bit weird to see companies using CDNs to push down page load times, but then their mostly static site is implemented with an SPA framework or such.

I guess, it doesn't matter for SEO how long it takes to render, does it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It matters a little bit - Google measures performance on real devices through CrUX, and that feeds into their rankings - but not much. There's no real incentive to go for a Lighthouse performance score above 80 or so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Agreed. I’m an SEO and I haven’t seen meaningful ranking adjustment by fixing page speed scores myself, but others may depending on the competition level and niches.

It’s meant more as a minor signal and a tie breaker. If SEO is roughly the same for two competing companies but one has page speeds of 2 second load times and the other 5 second, then the 2 second load time page may get a bump above the other 5 second one.

Now, I say MAY because there’s a lot that goes into it and maybe one brand has better on page conversion rates over the other one or something else that might affect things.