Page speed insights and SEO?

Soldato
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I'm making some good progress with my website with regular blogs and some good useful content on there. I've installed Yoast SEO plugin on my WP site and corrected what I can but when I run one of the online SEO checkers its flagging up page load times as a problem. I ran the site through google and Im getting 58% for desktop and 39% for mobile. I checked the competitors above me and they all have higher speeds than mine, although some are only marginal to be fair.

How important is page load speeds for increasing Google ranking? I'm currently ranking 8th which is just on the first page but would like to get higher if possible (as does everyone!).

The site runs a theme I bought which I guess like any of the "general" themes they are quite bulky so could be slowing things down a bit? My site is hosted with TSO on their economy package which I know now gets a lot of mixed reviews as they were bought out by GD.

Anything I can look at that will improve things?

Thanks.
 
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