Page Speed Service

#1

Post by handraiser » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 10:54 AM UTC

Page Speed Service
googlecode.blogspot.com

Re: Page Speed Service

#2

Post by pavpanchekha » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 11:28 AM UTC

Just another example of Google trying to improve the world.

I would personally be a bit worried about the level of control this would mean giving up. But I just like to tinker. I know plenty of people for whom this is perfect.

Re: Page Speed Service

#3

Post by bobfunk » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 11:39 AM UTC

Seems like strong competition to Cloudflare (https://www.cloudflare.com/). Always thought that was their greatest risk, someone with a huge, worldwide, already paid for CDN stepping in an offering the same service.

They still have the statistics and security features going for them, though...

Re: Page Speed Service

#4

Post by dave1010uk » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 11:42 AM UTC

bobfunk wrote: post #3

Seems like strong competition to Cloudflare ( https://www.cloudflare.com/ ). Always thought that was their greatest risk, someone with a huge, worldwide, already paid for CDN stepping in an offering the same service. They still have the statistics and security features going for them, though...

Also http://www.strangeloopnetworks.com (who have some great resources on web performance optimization: http://www.strangeloopnetworks.com/resources/ )

Re: Page Speed Service

#5

Post by robtoo » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 11:45 AM UTC

bobfunk wrote: post #3

Seems like strong competition to Cloudflare ( https://www.cloudflare.com/ ). Always thought that was their greatest risk, someone with a huge, worldwide, already paid for CDN stepping in an offering the same service. They still have the statistics and security features going for them, though...

Google have strong statistics/reporting products in other areas and I can't see it being long until they add this into the mix for Page Speed (if they haven't already.)

Re: Page Speed Service

#6

Post by tybris » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 11:48 AM UTC

Deprecated in 5, 4, 3, ...

Re: Page Speed Service

#7

Post by jbk » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 11:49 AM UTC

I think I just don't get it... The optimized version is actually slower than the normal one... http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110728_KN_1bd8e23bea97037c...

I must be missing something obvious...

Re: Page Speed Service

#8

Post by zokiboy » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 11:56 AM UTC

Does this work with dynamic web pages, like Facebook or news.ycombinator.com?

Re: Page Speed Service

#9

Post by eli » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 11:59 AM UTC

zokiboy wrote: post #8

Does this work with dynamic web pages, like Facebook or news.ycombinator.com?

I haven't checked, but I assume it works fine if you've got all your Cache and Vary headers set properly.

Re: Page Speed Service

#10

Post by dave1010uk » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 12:02 PM UTC

The settings docs page [1] shows what this service does:

  Combine CSS
  Combine JavaScript
  Image Optimize
  Image Resize
  JavaScript Optimize
  Move CSS to head
  Proxy CSS
  Proxy Images
  Proxy JavaScript

You can see demos of the Page Speed Service doing each of these things at [2].

The dashboard docs page [3] shows that there's some analytics but not a great deal.

[1] https://code.google.com/speed/pss/docs/settings.html

[2] http://www.pssdemos.com/

[3] https://code.google.com/speed/pss/docs/dashboard.html