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Re: Page Speed Service

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Post by joshfraser » Fri, Jul 29, 2011, 4:59 AM UTC

rkalla wrote: post #14

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.

WebPageTest originally came out of AOL as an open source project. Patrick Meenan was the lead on that. He recently took a job at Google, but WebPageTest is still open source and has contributions from lots of companies who care about performance. For example, my company Torbit sponsors a WebPageTest instance in Ireland.

Re: Page Speed Service

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Post by damoncloudflare » Fri, Jul 29, 2011, 10:37 PM UTC

jeromeparadis wrote: post #22

a3camero wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

CloudFlare does proxying and cashing for static and dynamic pages too and adds some security stuff. Not sure they minify and compress static resources, though. So, both services look like they are very different. CloudFlare will speed up a dynamic page that loads slowly, Google's service won't.

CloudFlare does have a feature to minimize some resources called Auto Minify. http://blog.cloudflare.com/an-all-new-and-improved-autominif...

Re: Page Speed Service

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Post by scytale » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 10:13 AM UTC

Absolutely great. What do people await? It is a free service helps to improve ya site. I run the g-pagespeedtest + webpagetest and received a list with errors in my project http://www.webdesign-angebote.com Especially pics and js made problems.

And the suggestions are okay, really helpful {background-color: expression(this.runtimeStyle.backgoundColor = 'none'} and "Compress Images", but thats been my fault. I adepted it immediatly and hope for improved user- and rankingresults.