Choosing high quality directories to list your website on is an important first step to raising your visibility online.  Google uses this in their algorithms to help rank your website and of course this will also help direct more people to your business.  There are several things that you need to consider:

The speed of your website became an important ranking factor with Google a few years ago, but increasingly evidence shows that Google have made it an important part of their ranking algorithm. Here as long ago as 2010 it was discussed on the Google webmaster blog:

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html

And it is not only Google which takes page load speed into account – so do your users. Research shows that the longer a user has to wait for a page to load, the lower the number of users that will wait for it to load, and then stay on that page. Repeated slow page loads will soon push them away from your website, and they won’t be buying from you.

Each time you visit a website your online information passes through a number of different computers across the world before it reaches its destination. This is the way the internet works.

However, connecting devices together to communicate with one another does mean any of these computers could potentially read sensitive information you send to the websites you visit - such as credit card details, usernames and passwords.

With so many security and privacy concerns on the web, wouldn't it be great if there was something that would prevent this information being snooped on, and reassure your clients and customers that their visit to your site is private and secure?