Live Ships Map - AIS - Vessel Traffic and Positions. Blog. A Little Piece of the Google Algorithm - Revealed. Using site speed in web search ranking. Webmaster Level: All You may have heard that here at Google we're obsessed with speed, in our products and on the web.
As part of that effort, today we're including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed. Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests.