Google Wants Faster Web With Page Speed Service

[exfileme]

Google has launched a service that grabs your website, translates it for optimum performance, and then spits it back out at unknowing web surfers.

Google Wants Faster Web With Page Speed Service : Read more

 

[digitalwitchcraft]

awesome!!

 

[garborg]

I love how the attached picture shows the "optimized" page loading slower.

 

[technoshroom]

Tried it on my site. Added almost half a second to the total page load time while more than tripling the start render time. Even doubled the repeat view start render time.

Seems like this service is more for those using junky CMS's than people who have coded their site themselves.

 

[house70]

Ummm... no. I don't think I will pay any amount of money to have a 5% decrease in loading times. Not worth it, IMO.

 

[jhansonxi]

[citation][nom]house70[/nom]Ummm... no. I don't think I will pay any amount of money to have a 5% decrease in loading times. Not worth it, IMO.[/citation]Performance depends on the page content. People stuck with dial-up will take any improvement they can get.

 

[MrBig55]

awesome!!

It's in no way awesome! In the test Internet explorer 8 loaded the page in about 20 seconds, and my firefox 5.0.1 with "noscript" and "adblock plus" loads it in about 3 seconds with a 20Mb internet connection. ^^

 

[Guest]

If you need caching to speed up your site, use nginx. It is opensource and awesome. And letting Google to relay all your traffic (including passwords, session cookies, etc) is just plain stupid. Even HTTPS cannot save you becaue users will establish connections with Google's servers, not yours.

 

[doorspawn]

If you want to speed your page up by 90%:
1) Use nothing but HTML and CSS (ie no javascript, flash) - (99% of sites, and 90% of sites that claim they need it, don't need scripts).
2) Don't use uncompressed images.
3) Use compressed text.

You will also get the benefit of working on nearly every single browser perfectly, even those who use piles of addons like script blockers.

Note - the above can (occasionally) take more effort these days and is often hard to get your boss to agree since they're often impressed when people throw words like Ajax, Rails etc that they have almost zero understanding of.

 

[randomizer]

The reason why the Tom's Hardware page didn't get much speedup is because the slowest content (a bucket load of JS files) is pulled from 3rd party servers.