Does website speed really matter for a local business?
Yes, because your customers are on phones, mid-problem, deciding fast. A site that takes long to load loses the visitor before it says a word, and they call the next result. Google measures this too and ranks accordingly. Speed is not polish. It is whether your marketing works at the moment it matters.
Picture the actual moment. Standing water, a dead AC, a search from a phone on the driveway. The customer taps your result. Every second of white screen is an invitation to hit back and tap the next one.
Speed also feeds rankings. Google folds page experience into how it orders results, and slow sites bleed position to fast ones. The trades feel it worst, because trade searches happen on phones more than desktops.
Test yourself honestly: load your site from a phone off wifi. Count. If you got bored, so do customers. Our free score measures your real speed along with everything else that decides who gets found.
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