Does theme loading speed effect SEO?!

[Autofresh.in]

Yes, loading time affects SEO directly or indirectly. It increase the Bounce rate and conversion can be decreased too!

[nancypearl987]

Yes! Theme loading time speed definitely effect bad for your SEO. Try to make as minimum loading time of your pages to get better results from Google.

[zeus]

@Autofresh.in I agree if a page show slow loading then it can increase bounce rate.

@nancypearl987 "Minimum loading time" means removing all of the high quality images of a site which solely depends on images to attract it's visitors. So, how's that going to play out?

[charlesprabhu]

If a site's theme is heavy and takes a lot of time to load. Does it mean that it effect the site's SEO negatively?

Many webmasters say that it has effect. But yet I see a lot of site who takes a lot of time to load still manages to rank very high.

Page speed is also important to user experience. Pages with a longer load time tend to have higher bounce rates and lower average time on page.

[macaulead]

If a site's theme is heavy and takes a lot of time to load. Does it mean that it effect the site's SEO negatively?

Many webmasters say that it has effect. But yet I see a lot of site who takes a lot of time to load still manages to rank very high.

Page speed is also important to user experience. Pages with a longer load time tend to have higher bounce rates and lower average time on page.

True. But in many cases page's loading speed isn't much depended on the theme. Themes usually does load fine. If it hasn't been bombarded with media and high resolution images.

[bracknelson]

Obviously, it will affect, maybe your visitors couldn't like this.