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by tintin 5143 days ago
They also started looking at content above the fold and also monitor request time vs page loaded time for a while. I think it's great that Google is starting to monitor the user experience. It will keep people from building Javascript bloated sites that don't respond well.

I hope this isn't becoming a trend, but lately I see a lot of responsive sites that don't respond to user input. Maybe a little force from Google will stop this trend.
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VMG 5143 days ago
> It will keep people from building Javascript bloated sites that don't respond well.

On the other hand it will finally allow sites that do client-side rendering with JavaScript to be indexed properly, provided that they are responsive - which isn't that hard to do.

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yaix 5143 days ago
The new Goog search interface being one of them, especially on low end computers (netbooks etc).

The results of Goog monitoring page load and render times can be seen in Goog's Webmaster Tools and is measured by user's browsers. They started doing that some years ago and I am pretty sure by now it is part of the ranking.

And at the same time they made their own site slower and bloaded. :-/

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