Google Page Speed Online

#1

Post by abraham » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 8:08 PM UTC

Google Page Speed Online
pagespeed.googlelabs.com

Re: Google Page Speed Online

#2

Post by th0ma5 » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 8:10 PM UTC

"The page Google got an overall Page Speed Score of 100 (out of 100)." ... so they eat their own dog food, or was the homepage the pinnacle of excellence for the building this tool?

Re: Google Page Speed Online

#3

Post by saidulislam » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 8:14 PM UTC

I am surprised it doesn't catch or say anything about Flash

Re: Google Page Speed Online

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Post by prs » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 8:16 PM UTC

  The page Hacker News got an overall Page Speed Score of 86 (out of 100).

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#5

Post by gautaml » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 8:20 PM UTC

Nice to see google cheating:

http://i.imgur.com/JxFKP.png

Re: Google Page Speed Online

#6

Post by ramidarigaz » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 8:36 PM UTC

Hmmm... Contrary to a lot of recommendations I see here on HN (patio11 mainly), they seem to recommend enabling keep-alive.

Re: Google Page Speed Online

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Post by chc » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 8:38 PM UTC

ramidarigaz wrote: post #6

Hmmm... Contrary to a lot of recommendations I see here on HN (patio11 mainly), they seem to recommend enabling keep-alive.

That's because patio11 is telling you how to keep your site alive under load, while that page is telling you how to decrease your page load times. They're contrary goals in this case. Keep-Alive makes things load faster, but it puts a cap on how many clients can connect to your server before it curls up and dies. It would be ideal if Apache would let you set a high-water limit for Keep-Alive connections after which it turns the feature off, but I don't know any way to do that. You can set how long they're kept alive, and you can set how many requests are allowed per Keep-Alive session, but not how many sessions are kept alive.

Re: Google Page Speed Online

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Post by ultrasaurus » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 8:43 PM UTC

Rats, they got me:

The following cacheable resources have a short freshness lifetime. Specify an expiration at least one week in the future for the following resources: http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js (1 day)

Re: Google Page Speed Online

#9

Post by MochaMocha » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 8:45 PM UTC

I like how Google.com scores a 97, while Bing.com scores a 96 (ha!)

Re: Google Page Speed Online

#10

Post by pankratiev » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 8:54 PM UTC

This suggestion from Google especially looks fun:

The following publicly cacheable, compressible resources should have a "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header:

    * http://www.google.com/buzz/api/button.js

However, it's a useful tool. It gives me useful suggestions for improving.

Anybody knows a simple tool to minify javascript?