: Load times and SEO for 1 page sites I find that 1 page sites can be interactive animating from page to page. But if a site starts to get a little larger or contains many images, perhaps

@Debbie626

Css sprites and reduce picture size in KB. Most slow loading sites are pictures. Hosting makes a big difference too.

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@Berumen354

There's a whole discipline that has evolved around page-speed optimization. This has gained additional interest since Google announced that page speed is a factor in ranking. The good thing is that whatever you do to improve you're user's experience/perception of page speed, you'll most likely doing what the search engines appreciate as well.

Gaining an understanding of browser/server caching, reading both Google's and Yahoo's recommendations on optimizing sites for speed will set you in good stead.

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@Hamaas447

from a SEO point of view: forget about it.

only the initial load of a page is important from a SEO perspective. everything that you do after the inital load based on a user interaction is not subject of SEO.

SEO optimizing single page webapps only deals with the initial HTML page (HTML + synchronous dependencies like scripts and images) loaded by a non javascript clients on the first request. everything else is more ux/usability territory.

if you want to preload "pages" into your javascript/ajax app just load them one after the other in an asynchronous way (which is the normal way in ajax). the thing about asynchronous is, that it just does not block the browser.

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