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So get ready to blog like a pro and make your traffic explode with your host, whose blog gets more than one million visitors every single month, Brandon Galey.

My name's Brandon Galey and welcome to episode 120 of The Blog Millionaire.

Over the next couple of episodes, I'm going to be revealing my new process for dramatically

improving your Google Page Speed Insights score, which Google is politely telling all website

owners that they need to improve upon.

When Google has done this in the past, it's usually followed with major algorithm updates.

The bottom line is that if you don't get your score up, more specifically your mobile score up,

then you are going to probably start losing traffic in the upcoming Google Algorithm updates.

I want to start this off by giving you a brief explanation of what has happened the

past six months in regards to this very important topic. In July of 2018, Google rolled out its

page speed algorithm update. This marked the beginning of Google using page speed as a ranking

factor. This update focused in on mobile search

results and how fast pages were coming up on mobile phones. Recently, Backlinko analyzed over

one million search results pages on Google, and they found that the average page load speed

was a huge factor in getting a first page ranking.

The average page load speed of the number one ranked posts on Google was right around

1.9 seconds. The average speed needed to break into the top 10, meaning the number 10 ranked

post, was at 2.25 seconds.

Google has been recommending that website owners use their page speed insights tool

to help them see how their websites and blog post were scoring on mobile.

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