Historically we havent used it in our search rankings, but a lot of people within Google think that the web should be fast, it should be a good experience and so its fair to say if youre a fast site, maybe you should get a little bit of a bonus, or if you have an awfully slow site, maybe users dont want that as much.

• Googles Page Speed Tool " This is a firefox plugin from Google that enables you to see which areas of your site need improvement.
• WebPageTest.org " Another speed tool which provides optimization recommendations and other interesting stats.