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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.
I really don't see the point of passing it through them. Instead I'd rather they just tell me how to optimize it so I can apply the improvements myself.
Anyone notice all the testing locations are AWS Regions? I was assuming webpagetest was a Google property and figured they would use their own data centers.
That doesn't prove much though, does it? "Northern Virginia" is a pretty broad region.
I really don't see the point of passing it through them. Instead I'd rather they just tell me how to optimize it so I can apply the improvements myself.
They offer that as well. http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com/
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Cloudflare does a LOT more than this. In fact, the area where they cross-over is the area that interests me the least - I am quite capable of making a website balls-to-the-wall fast without either of their products, but Cloudflare leverage their size to accomplish things I literally could not accomplish without them. I initially wrote Cloudflare off because of this, they don't do a great job of telling you about the…
Care to elaborate? I've been wondering what the advantages are but haven't had the time to look into it in more depth. What's been your experience?
Another thing they can do with their size is automatically identify and react to new attacks, so when a DDOS occurs it very quickly routes the traffic away and updates its ruleset to always be protected against that attack from now on, for all sites behind them.
I don't actually have any experience though as I've never used the service, this is all from their website and from talking to their staff on HN :)
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That doesn't prove much though, does it? "Northern Virginia" is a pretty broad region.
Weird that their default test browser is IE8 too. Hello Chrome ?
Anyone notice all the testing locations are AWS Regions? I was assuming webpagetest was a Google property and figured they would use their own data centers.
Can end-users somehow opt-out of the pages they are viewing passing through Google? It should be technically possible but I doubt they will offer that.
http://blog.craigrcannon.com/post/8170801499/my-site-tested-...