google is now using the speed of your site to determine your search rankings your site needs to be as fast as it can. Along with optimising your site for search results and w3c and wcag validation you now need to optimise for speed using google pagespeed.
there are a lot of good tools out there to help you:
Out of interest, is it confirmed that Google are using page load time as a factor in rankings or is that speculation due to their Google labs page rank?
If so, not only are people going to want individual IPs in different class C’s but also server sat right next to Google?!
jacko
yeah; it was confirmed in the google webmastertools blog a couple of months ago:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html