Significance of Page speed to SEO?

[Zachary_Russell]

I am in the middle of optimizing sites for SEO, and am wondering how big of a factor it is to get page load speed under 1.5 seconds?

I am prioritizing tasks and I want to know how much this could affect trafiic?

Thanks

[conversiontactics]

Google states that speed win , In 2010 Marissa Mayer discuss about Site speed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQwAKsFmK_8

You can use webmaster and install site speed using firefox the link is under Labs. And in analytics go to site content then site speed to get the data.

To increase your site speed.

You need to make sure that your css is clean and the images are properly optimise,

And most importantly your hosting provider Which tier network does your server resides, Tier 2 i would prefer as the have just one hop count from the backbone so  you get good speed.

Would recomend Rackspace in US.

[GeorgeAndrews]

Personally, I would focus on other site concerns to start. Unless your site takes forever to load, I would give priority to content, site architecture, internal linking structure, etc... before site speed.

Here's a good post for determining whether you should be worrying about site speed:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/site-speed-are-you-fast-does-it-matter

Hope this helps!