How critical is the ping > 50 for SEO and Russian search engines?

Question

Ping

We plan to completely move to Amazon (ec2, route 53, s3), but the potential problems due to the increase in ping (50-100 for the Irish DC) are not completely clear. Interested in the following:
1. Criticality for a regular site / online store. Will the visitor notice?
2. Criticality for SEO and search engines. Will there be penalties?

Answer 1

1. Will the visitor notice - it has nothing to do with ping. If the dvidok is slow, it doesn't matter what ping.
In addition, it should be borne in mind that ping, as it were, works at a different OSI level and slow / fast ping has little effect on http operation. This is still not a gamble in games, where the distance from the computer to the server is critical.
2. Again, page speed will matter. Pings do not play a critical role here.

Answer 2

1) No, it’s not critical, I transferred several projects from Russian hosting, I don’t feel that the sites began to load more slowly, there are no complaints from users.
2) Yandex also did not react to the transfer on any site.

Answer 3

download speed is important, not ping. upload a copy of your store to the test servers (on Amazon it will cost a penny) and calculate the download speed - how much more it will be than in the Russian Federation. for seo, the physical location is - by and large - not so important.

Answer 4

It strongly depends on the site. If your engine fits within 20 ms, and there are few HTTP requests (actually HTML, a common CSS file, a common JS file), then the ping will be noticeable in units of ms. True, it will be noticeable only if you look closely, and in any case, your site, from the maximum use of all the techniques that made it possible to achieve such a result, will stand out in the eyes of the user even with 100 ms ping for the better relative to 9x% of sites.
If we take a regular average dynamic site, then there are scripts, tons of unnecessary CSS for hundreds of unnecessary modules, which will first be processed on the server much longer than ping, and then also on the client, so when the page load takes seconds, then saving 50ms on ping will not work.

Answer 5

Does it help to buy a CDN from the same Amazon?