does site speed have anything to do with seo stuff?

shimspedy

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so my SEO is performing really bad with over 1000K speed test errors and my traffic has reduced... im planning to get a digital ocean storage space and maybe move my two Forum on the digital ocean but I'm not experienced in self server management... any tips and what the maximum cost per months on digital...?
 
One of the first major shakeups was Google announcing that SSL/https would start being factored into rankings around mid '18 (though it was always a weak signal since around 2010). The last year or so, speed has also increasingly become important with Google's "mobile first indexing", as previously was mostly factored for desktop search.

With that many errors, your server environment is of course important but also consider aspects such as a good caching system, CDN or optimized asset delivery. In your speed tests though, your server performance can be checked with "time to first byte", or TTFB which anything under 200ms is great.

Without knowing details of your site, sometimes even front-end elements such as embedded content, iframes and widgets can cause severe page rendering issues due to calling external scripts etc. Also check your page file sizes, which are much more important on mobile - the higher the page size, the slower the loading/rendering, and thus higher the bounce rate. As bounce rate is also a ranking signal, you can easily get a double whammy here.

Good luck on your server move!
 
thanks for the info currently this is my page speed status :https://www.dimeforum.com/seo/dimeforum.com
im hosting it on Bluehost shared pro acc and i was thinking of moving to digitalocean or just host my files on digitalocean due to cost issues... because i think maybe if i got my own server would improve the site speed .... and my ranking.
I can go through the results later today or tomorrow and post some suggestions :), as well as scan with a few other tools.
 
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