Google Webmaster Site Performance

[Bucky]

In webmaster tools, under labs/site performance google provides your ave page load time.

When google grades a page, does it use how long that specific page loads

-or-

Does google use the overall ave page load time for the domain as provided in lab/site performance

[evolvingSEO]

I've known the webmaster tools data on this to be shaky at best.

I would recommend installing the simple one line tracking code for analytics to track page load time. This is a much more accurate and useful way to see how its going: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/05/measure-page-load-time-with-site-speed.html

I'd also use Page Speed for Chrome to test your site and get recommendations.

-Dan

[Bucky]

That was not my question.

The question was, does google use the ave page load time of the domain when ranking a page or does it use the page load time of the specific page it is grading?

[evolvingSEO]

Bucky

Apologize, misread your first question. I do not know for a fact, but the original webmaster tools article says "site speed" in several places (not "page" speed) so I would assume the average speed of the entire site.

-Dan