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Webmaster Central BlogPeople want to be able to find answers to their questions as fast as possible — studies show thatpeople really care about the speedof a page. Although speed has been used in ranking for some time, that signal was focused on desktop searches. Today we’re announcing that starting in July 2018,page speed will be a ranking factorfor mobile searches.
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