Page Speed for Chrome, and in 40 languages!
(Cross-posted from the Google
Webmaster Central Blog.)
Today we’re
launching the most requested feature for
Page Speed,
Page Speed for
Chrome. Now Google Chrome users can get Page Speed performance suggestions to make
their sites faster, right inside the Chrome browser. We would like to thank all our users for
your great feedback and support since we launched. We’re humbled that 1.4 M unique users are
using the Page Speed extension and finding it useful to help with their web performance
diagnosis.
Google Chrome support has always been high on our priority
list but we wanted to get it right. It was critical that the same engine that powers the
Page Speed Add-On for
Firefox be used here as well. So we first built the
Page
Speed SDK, which we then integrated into the Chrome extension.
Page Speed for Chrome retains the same core features as the Firefox add-on. In addition,
there are two major improvements appearing in this version first. We’ve improved scoring and
suggestion ordering to help web developers focus on higher-potential optimizations first.
Plus, because
making the web faster is
a global initiative, Page Speed now supports displaying localized rule results in 40
languages! These improvements are part of the Page Speed SDK, so they will also appear in the
next release of our Firefox add-on as well.
If your site serves
different content based on the browser’s user agent, you now have a good method for page
performance analysis as seen by different browsers, with Page Speed coverage for Firefox and
Chrome through the extensions, and Internet Explorer via
webpagetest.org, which integrates the Page
Speed SDK.
We’d love to hear from you, as always. Please try
Page Speed for
Chrome, and give us feedback on our
mailing list about
additional functionality you’d like to see. Stay tuned for updates to Page Speed for Chrome
that take advantage of exciting new technologies such as
Native
Client.
By Matthew Steele and Richard Rabbat, Page Speed Team
