Quality Score - Landing Page Load Times

[kenard]

Does anyone know if Google spiders external css, js, images or flash elements and or calls to the server when it measures its load times?

I found a "4 second" rule in one of Google's Learning Center's multimedia files http://services.google.com/awp/en_us/breeze/2979222/index.html [services.google.com]. #4 "Making Landing Pages Easy To Navigate. I was wondering if anyone knew if that was a completely rendered page or not. What if the images are pulled from the css?

Thanks in advance!

[bhartzer]

Since they don't execute JavaScript I wouldn't imagine that JS would have anything to do with their measurement of the load time. Images might be a factor, not sure about flash although it might be a factor if it's a large file.

[misterjinx]

Hi,

please note that landing page load time is evaluted from Adsbot, a Google bot dedicated to test (you'll see in Google webmaster tools the possibility to test a second bot after GoogleBot. One of them bot is Adsbot).

Please also note that rapid load time is always a quality factor for Google, also in organic results.

[kenard]

I know load time is a factor, but the measurement is the thing that has me a little puzzled. There are many things that could affect load times, images to say the least. We usually set up our load times to be no more than 12 seconds on a 56k modem, but there's no Google documentation other than that one instance I found which mentions quantifying it.

Thanks for the feedback!