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Press Gazette / Jim Edwards / Jul 27
“Page load speed is one of the often-abused measures in the news business, with many digital newsrooms historically favouring maximum ad load in the belief that maximum revenue will follow. The problem is that the more ad units you have, the slower the pages load. Readers sometimes give up and click away before a page is complete – and Google punishes websites whose pages load slowly.”
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