Just got my page load speed down from 14.9 seconds to 2.2 seconds!

[PoshTiger]

Well I'm made up.

I have a complicated Joomla site that's over 1Mb but now loads in 2.29 seconds - very happy!

Does anyone have any information on whether this will have a meaningful effect on any rankings?

 

[PoshTiger]

yeah, still tinkering now though.

Setting up an adwords lander on the office 365 migration page to see if that will bear any fruit!

 

[Adam H]

lol 14 seconds! Have you thrown it through Google page insights to see what else could be done ? Many people only pay attention to webpagetest.org ,gtmetrix.com and pingdom etc focusing on actual page and server response times..........but they completely forget that perceived page speed which contributes to user-friendliness also matters.

Images are the biggest bug bear by miles and generally the biggest thing which will effect user experience.

 

[PoshTiger]

Well the U.S. Based tool said 14.7ms - to a 123-reg VPS. The biggest changes came from gzip and compressing the lossless PNGs (I didn't know you could do this).

Will check out page insights too though - thanks!