Speed is paramount at Google
Google has a healthy obsession with speed. Two years ago they released the Page Speed browser extension, and earlier this year they introduced the Page Speed Online API. Now Google have released another addition to the Page Speed family: Page Speed Service.
Page Speed Service is a cloud-based service that automatically speeds-up webpage loading times. It works by allowing webmasters to specify that their site be fetched through Google’s super-fast servers. Along the way Google applies performance related best practices, like compressing CSS and images, allowing the webpage to be loaded a whole lot faster by the end user.
In tests Google say the service can speed any website up by 25-60%. They’ve even created a page where webmasters can measure their site’s improved performance potential first before signing up.
Page Speed Service is available free to a limited number of webmasters, and will eventually be made available to everyone as a “competitively” priced paid service.
Webmasters can register their interest by filling out this form.
The RAND Europe authors are so stuck in their own echo chamber they don't realize…
Humans, animals & commodities alike are all to be digitally tagged, tracked-and-traced equally: perspective The…
Teaching has changed a lot over the years, from chalkboards to laptops, from printed worksheets…
The massive city-wide surveillance that collaborative sensing requires is a tremendous temptation for tyrants: perspective…
Innovation in software can lay claim to the very solutions that today have become the…
Rising from a decade of economic ambiguity, technological disruption, and the lingering specter of a…