Making your website fast is crucial to creating a great user experience – but doing so can be
complicated, with many factors to consider. That’s why we created mod_pagespeed, an
open-source Apache module designed to
optimize your web pages automatically and easily. We recently introduced our milestone 1.0
release, and today, we’re following it up with the release of mod_pagespeed 1.1.23.1
to our beta channel.
With this release we've reduced server load time and improved utilization for large,
multi-server environments. We accomplished this by adding support for memcached (a popular,
scalable cache), and improving logging and statistics reporting. With memcached, multiple Apache servers share and fetch
the same resources optimized by mod_pagespeed. Logging and reporting have been improved to
make it easier to keep track of resource consumption and optimization effectiveness across
multiple sites hosted by a single Apache installation. These new features make mod_pagespeed
even better for high-traffic sites and network providers hosting many individual websites on
their infrastructure.
We’ve also added a number of other new features and optimizations including:
Improved CSS optimization. CSS media queries are now supported, and the
new fallback_rewrite_css_urls
filter allows partial optimization of CSS containing unsupported or proprietary
extensions.
The default set of optimizers now includes the flatten_css_imports
filter, improving out-of-the-box performance.
Improved mod_spdy
interaction with support for custom mod_pagespeed configuration and filters for SPDY enabled
clients. This makes it easier to deploy SPDY on your site, which can significantly decrease page load
times.
Check out the release
notes for all the new features and improvements. For more information about
mod_pagespeed, please see our documentation,
and if you have any questions or issues let us know on our issue tracker or discussion
group.
Jud
Porter is a software engineer working on mod_pagespeed, an Apache module designed to
automatically make websites faster. In his free time he enjoys experimenting with cocktails,
brushing up on his foosball game, and discovering obscure music.
By Jud Porter,
Software Engineer, PageSpeed Team