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Re:Google May Be Stealing Mobile Traffic by jasoncartwright on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:22AM (#12724070)
They do promote fast pages: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-i...

"we've decided to take site speed into account in our search rankings"

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Re:Google May Be Stealing Mobile Traffic by jonknee on Monday October 17, 2016 @11:56AM (#12726197)
Sure, but then they put a lightning bolt next to any AMP page, even if your non-AMP page is faster.
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Re:Google May Be Stealing Mobile Traffic by spiderfarmer on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @06:14AM (#12733224)
I really doubt that that factor has any real influence on ranking. In my niche there are notoriously slow websites at the top that aren't even responsive in some cases.

Just like the promised benefits of HTTPS. I have yet to hear about a case where search traffic increased after switching to HTTPS.

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