Google has long been looking at page load speed as one part of their natural algorithm. As part of their ongoing support to site owners, Google has opened up this tool as a firefox plug in, called Firebug. The plug in works to identify elements of  your page structure which could be improved. Of course structure is just one part of the speed and of the SEO process. Sites that run on slow hosts (I admit, this one is but I’m working on the change) will also be impacted on their SEO.

Firebug Screenshot

I look forward to testing it when it becomes fully available. The current tool requires a newer version of Firefox than is released.

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