Page Speed Service: Web performance, delivered.
By Ram
Ramani, Engineering ManagerUpdate 7/29/11: We were
notified of a bug in the measurement tool that sometimes causes incorrect measurements. If
your results indicated a slowdown on your pages, please run the tests again, and make sure you
specify a fully qualified domain such as www.example.com. We apologize for
any inconvenience and confusion this may have caused.
Details:
Measurement tests run for bare
domains (such as example.com, without the prefix
www) previously indicated that pages were loading more slowly, rather than
speeding up, when using Page Speed Service. The test results page now prominently notifies you
of this when you visit this page, if this error applies to you. Please check your old
measurement results page if this bug applies to you. Running the tests again with the fully
qualified domain such as www.example.com usually fixes the issue and gives
you the correct measurement. Two years ago we released the
Page Speed browser
extension and earlier this year the
Page Speed Online API to
provide developers with specific suggestions to make their web pages faster. Last year we
released
mod_pagespeed, an
Apache module, to automatically rewrite web pages. To further simplify the life of webmasters
and to avoid the hassles of installation, today we are releasing the latest addition to the
Page Speed family:
Page Speed
Service.
Page Speed Service is an online service that
automatically speeds up loading of your web pages. To use the service, you need to sign up and
point your site’s DNS entry to Google. Page Speed Service fetches content from your servers,
rewrites your pages by applying web performance best practices, and serves them to end users
via Google's servers across the globe. Your users will continue to access your site just as
they did before, only with faster load times. Now you don’t have to worry about concatenating
CSS, compressing images, caching, gzipping resources or other web performance best
practices.
In our testing we have seen speed improvements of
25% to 60% on several
sites. But we know you care most about the numbers for your site, so
check out how much Page
Speed Service can speed up your site. If you’re encouraged by the results, please
sign
up. If not, be sure to check back later. We are diligently working on adding more
improvements to the service.
At this time, Page Speed Service is being
offered to a limited set of webmasters free of charge. Pricing will be competitive and details
will be made available later. You can request access to the service by filling out this
web
form.
Ram Ramani is an
Engineering Manager on the Make the Web Faster Team in Bangalore, India. He is a believer in
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