At Google, we put a
lot of effort into making the web faster. To understand the impact of our work, we need to
track the speed of the web over time. HTTP
Archive allows us to do that.
HTTP Archive generates regular
reports illustrating trends such as page size and Page Speed score of the top pages
on the web. Interested users can download the raw dataset for free,
modify the source
code to perform their own analyses, and unearth valuable trends.
HTTP Archive crawls the world’s top 18,000 URLs, with a plan to increase
that number to a million or more in the coming months.
Google engineers
built
HTTP Archive as an open source service. We are now transitioning the ownership and maintenance
of it to the Internet Archive. Google is
proud to support the continued development of HTTP Archive and to help create a rich
repository of data that developers can use to conduct performance research.
Arvind
Jain founded and leads the Make the Web Faster initiative at Google. As part of that
initiative, Arvind also started the Instant Pages effort, just
announced yesterday.
