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Wondering what’s the Impact of PageSpeed for SEO
Posted by on May 1, 2026 at 9:34 pmWithout any argument I understand the importance of page speed and effects on SEO but how much negative it can go My site PageSpeed not worse but never comes to good category no matter how hard I try it's more on the server time which takes it's own time
- Largest Contentful Paint(LCP) is around 40%
- Interaction to Next Paint(INP) is around 60%
- Cumulative Layout Shift(CLS) is around 40-50%
Despite that gsc keep my page ranking top of the spot not for all pages bit some of the pages always hit top despite not been Mobile friendly and PageSpeed on poor Category
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Pagespeed Overview doesn’t affected my spot in GSC and keep it consistent for last 5 years
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I work with SEO for 6 yeas, go with my experience: performance only metters if your website is really slow. Otherwise is a water of time to worry about this
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Also worth noting that until you reach a certain threshold – like 100 organic clicks a month – you dont even get a CrUX report (how G calculates your pagespeed) – which, if you do the match, means they have to rank you before they know – its so debunked!
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I tested one of the highest valued search terms – something to do with vacations – like super high volume and high CPC$ – and the top 3 all had less than 39% – if pagespeed was so “critical” then nobody told their competition
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Thanks for sharing – going to add this to our training Q
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Care to share in TechSEO?
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WebLinkr hit all the important things: but I do want to note that for paid search, performance impacts quality score which impacts click costs.
So don’t take this as a “page speed doesn’t matter at all” conclusion. Just for SEO rankings itself.
Further, long load times are annoying and interruptive to user journeys.
Is that “SEO”? No. But SEO is a part of web outcomes so these things do matter; even if it’s just in terms of flagging it to Devs.
At EOD, rankings are only as good as their ability to drive business.
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It’s not that performance doesn’t matter at all. It does. Just not as much as devs sometimes seem to wish it did.
It’s certainly a ranking factor, but various Google reps say above a score of, say, 50, it’s maybe the 20th most important factor.
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