Web design or web hosting?

[Trafford]

We know that now Google includes loading speed as a factor to rank a website. So, which is more significant to increase our website loading speed, the good and efficient design and scripting or the reliable web hosting server?

[esnail]

A good, well coded website first and foremost.Without that, the best hosting in the world wont help much.

[Catherine]

You should select a good programming language to develop and design your site so that it does not require many resources and make sure that you only install the components you need on the site. To many components like plugins etc. will make the site slow.

Once you are done with this, a good and efficient hosting plan is the next step

It is better to keep some resources as reserve on the hosting plan or server you choose to enhance the performance of the site.

[paul]

Google's endeavor to deliver the best possible end-user experience, if the website is efficiently designed and hosted at SEO servers the websites will load faster and it could be easy for Google to index more pages.

[Bakeron]

I never heard that Google cares about this, is it realy true? But I always preferred clean HTML, CSS sites and stood away from flash as much as I could.

[KillerPanel]

I've always been criticized about compressing graphics too much even back then when Internet connections were much slower. I guess this finally pays off for me.

[cools4u]

Website designing with good content and proper code is essential to boost a website ranking...but web hosting also matters as it helps to make your website running and available properly world wide...