Loading Time, QS and Geographic Location

[rsteven]

Does anyone know what Google are planning to do in relation to the geographical aspect of this?

My servers are based in Australia and if the "test" server is in the US then I am going to have an extra chunk of latency to cope with...

[RhinoFish]

I think they said they'd work around this issue by making it a relative comparison, so you're going to be graded against other sites hosted where you're at.

[adwords.google.com...]

"Note that we evaluate your load time relative to the average in your server's geographic region."

[conor]

Ya, but wher the bot comes from will still be a major influence on load times

[briggidere]

Has anyone seen this appear in their account yet?

[AdWordsAdvisor]

Has anyone seen this appear in their account yet?

This has not yet launched, briggidere. So anyone seeing it in their account will really have something special going on, like an alpha version of 'AdWords Clairvoyant', or something. (Maybe check to see if there are any good stock market tips in there, too!) ;)

To be just a tiny bit more serious, I'll certainly post with a heads-up once this launches in accounts. It'll also be mentioned in the Inside AdWords blog, I'd imagine.

AWA

[rsteven]

thanks for the replies ;-)