With Google’s Page Speed Update, you won’t have to worry about it impacting how Google indexes your mobile or desktop content. It will affect only how the mobile pages are ranked in the Google mobile search results.Keep in mind that indexing and rankings are two different things, as Google explains in the How Search Works portal.
There seems to be some confusion around the page Speed Update and if it will impact indexing, so it’s a good idea to make sure we are all on the same page. Both John Mueller and Gary Illyes of Google chimed in to explain that this algorithm will have no impact on indexing.
The mobile speed update affects only ranking in mobile search results; it’s independent of the indexing.
— John ☆.o(≧▽≦)o.☆ (@JohnMu) January 31, 2018
Why would indexing be related to speed? (I’m kinda confused how this was connected, wonder if we need to update something on our side to make it clearer)
— John ☆.o(≧▽≦)o.☆ (@JohnMu) January 31, 2018
Slow pages can get into the index. The speed update is a ranking change that has no direct effect on indexing.
— Gary “鯨理” Illyes (@methode) January 31, 2018