DDOS Cyber Attack.? How is it Relevant to SEO?
Page loading time or Site loading time is a crucial factor for SEO. Why?
If your website specially the e-commerce websites and web pages are not optimized to load fast, then it is pretty obvious that your potential visitors / customers wont wait long to see what your website offers them.
There are many more competitors out there in internet with good page loading speed.
We try to reduce image size, page size, avoid flash.
We even try to do html minification, css minification.
There are many more SEO checklists, but here we are not discussing those checklists
So, why to optimize page speed??
We optimize the page speed to make it easier for the online traffic and visitors, and to minimize the bounce rate of your website.
BUT
DOS (Deniel of Service) or DDOS (Distributed Deniel of Service) is a type of cyber attack, when it happens you will see your website is loading and loading, and It is called "Low and Slow Attack" in term of hackers.
Most of time we ignore it saying that it is server error or the error due to low server response, but it is NOT.
So, what is DOS (Deniel of Service) or DDOS (Distributed Deniel of Service) cyber attack?
The goal of DDOS attack is to overwhelming your website traffic, so if your website got 100 genuine visitors in a single day, because of DDOS it can massively overwhelmed to 5,000 or 50,000 and more with an increased size of package.
These parameters of package size and request pings solely depend upon the hacker.
So, the ultimate result is your server can't handle so much ping and most of fake + genuine visitors request in a short time span.
Your site gets down or it shows not loading.
There are types of DDOS attacks like,
HTTPS flood Attacks
DNS Attacks
Low and Slow Attacks
So, what is the solution?
DDOS attack is to attack and hack someone's personal computer and laptop as well if the hacker knows your I.P (Internet Protocol). So, to prevent your device from DDOS I would like to recommend you to use VPN (Virtual Private Network).
But to protect your website from DDOS attack, the BANDWIDTH of server should be great and good. It costs a little more,
But I think this is better idea to have server with good Bandwidth than seeing that you are loosing your potential customers for more than hours because your website is not loading.
Major sites that were affected frequently by DDOS are listed below.
Amazon
NETFLIX
Redit
Spotify
PayPal
Shopify
GitHub
SOUNdCLOUD
etc
We SEO people think why it takes too much time to load, and we blame on server, but who knows if your website is under massive DDOS cyber attack or not.
So, if you don't want to be the victim of DDOS cyber attackers (the hackers), then take right prevention for your websites.
There are many available DDOS hacking tools like
LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Canon)
HULK (HTTP Unbearable Load King)
are out there to down your website.
DDOS attack can be done even from command prompt with IP of your website.
So, be careful from next time, don't ignore when your website takes too much time to load most of times.












