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- orginal : load time 5 seconds *
- optimized : infinity....
I think they have to optimize their optimizer...
* : all js & css & image files about 900kb and the connection is 1Mbit adsl.
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...
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Why would you want to?
Some users are uncomfortable with the idea that even if they avoid Google entirely by not using their search, OS, email, or maps, that Google can still have a profile of them and which sites they visit. If you don't like the company and want to avoid them, you will now have to choose to not visit websites served through their DNS. That's much more difficult than just using a different email provider.
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They offer that as well. http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com/
Pagespeed is on the soon to be closed Google Labs ( http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-wood-behind-fewe... ).
If anyone on HN thinks their site might be sub-optimal on the front-end, contact me on whyslow@zofrex.com and I'll take a look, and let you know what you can do to speed things up :)
Edit: I'd actually like feedback please... it went down to 0, then up to 1, then down to 0 again.. and then back up to 2 after I posted this reply. I wasn't asking for upvotes, I want to know what it is that is making some people downvote this. Is it not in keeping with the etiquette here, is there some unspoken rule I'm violating?
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...
The same with our website. ( http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110728_2Y_cf94015a7345bbed... ) 8% faster than Google's version. Yay! To be fair we have done a lot of optimizations on the site, but still feels like I may be missing something obvious.
(This is from watching the video in my test results)
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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 ?
"WebPagetest is not run by Google."
and points to their about page. Apparently, he's right.
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.
It is not technically possible because to use the service, a web site has to change their hosting provider to Google. There are no longer any servers outside Google hosting the content, if I understand the bit about DNS change correctly.