Website speed affecting SEO (Matt Cutt)

[kelvintrinit]

Well this certainly is new, Google's Matt Cutt in his recent interview said that google has never before given importance to speed of website. But now its going to be one of important factor while considering Page Ranking & also Google’s much discussed Algorithm update (Caffeine), which was recently found to begin rolling out soon. Watch out guys google has added new rules to this game triumphing speed over relevant content? Well certainly relevant content will always be the prior thing to take into consideration while Ranking the site but what is there is two sites having same relevant content and backlinks certainly speed will be considered then...seeing that there are over 200 factors influencing Page Ranking, where does Speed matter for Page Ranking in google ranks? , its become more interesting and you need to be a pro to play it.

[paul]

Just tried to find out why Google is more concerned about speed?;
"Google is trying to invest in Britain's fibre broadband network, they've already announced plans to build a gigabit fibre broadband network in the US aiming to deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today".
Source:
pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/355462/is-google-planning-to-fibre-britain
googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html

[w3bmaster]

Well still there are so many other factors involved

And anyway speed loading is important not only for SEO