Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 3:30 AM
Webmaster level: AdvancedTwo years ago we released the Page Speed browser extension and earlier this year the Page Speed Online API to provide developers with specific suggestions to make their web pages faster. Last year we released mod_pagespeed, an Apache module, to automatically rewrite web pages. To further simplify the life of webmasters and to avoid the hassles of installation, today we are releasing the latest addition to the Page Speed family: Page Speed Service.
Page Speed Service is an online service that automatically speeds up loading of your web pages. To use the service, you need to sign up and point your site’s DNS entry to Google. Page Speed Service fetches content from your servers, rewrites your pages by applying web performance best practices, and serves them to end users via Google's servers across the globe. Your users will continue to access your site just as they did before, only with faster load times. Now you don’t have to worry about concatenating CSS, compressing images, caching, gzipping resources or other web performance best practices.
In our testing we have seen speed improvements of 25% to 60% on several sites. But we know you care most about the numbers for your site, so check out how much Page Speed Service can speed up your site. If you’re encouraged by the results, please sign up. If not, be sure to check back later. We are diligently working on adding more improvements to the service.
At this time, Page Speed Service is being offered to a limited set of webmasters free of charge. Pricing will be competitive and details will be made available later. You can request access to the service by filling out this web form.
27 comments:
wow, this sounds interesting. Do you also cache the content or do you make a request to the original page each time a user requests the page through this service?
In other words, would that also protect against ddos attacks (I assume that Google's infrastructure is more or less immun against these attacks)?
Alex
btw: I just tested one of our sites on http://www.webpagetest.org/ and the "optimized" site was 1.3s slower than the original one for both, render time and page load time.
The repeated views were 0.5s quicker for the optimzed version but isn't that a bad trade off, given the fact, that the user's first impression could be key?
Very, very nice service.
Hope you make pricing and payment methods low threshold for small website's.
Will HTTPS be supported?
"At this time, Page Speed Service is being offered to a limited set of webmasters free of charge. Pricing will be competitive and details will be made available later."
Does that mean if I sign up now, I will not have to pay later?
Is this like cloudflare?
What happens if the site breaks as a results of this, or if the custom web fonts don't work, or some other unforeseen issues arise as a result of this? Is this something we can simply turn on and off.
Wow, looks like it should be so much helpful...
CloudFlare must be in tension...
How does this compare to Cloudflare?
Well I don't think the pricing will be as competitive as cloudflare since it can be used to reduce App Engine Quotas usages.
Ram, I just signed up for access but had a question regarding control of the treatments. As it stands today, does this product offer a control panel that clients can use to tweak the individual optimizations?
Also, are optimizations browser specific?
Will this work for sites which customize the page content for an authenticated user (e.g. Drupal)? Or is this just applicable to static sites?
Seems it's exactly given like Cloudflare, as both Services fetches content from your servers, optimize your pages, and serves them to end users via their servers across the globe.
wow, yet another great step by the Google !
Google is the king. It keeps on coming back with good improvements at web master and user ends.
Amazing. I really want to give this a shot.
great step many webmasters are looking for the same :D
I really love reading this new development on pagespeed. Thank you, Google.
Unfortunately, on testing my pagespeed test@webpagetest.org, after I selected "More configuration" there was no other option for "Browser" except for IE8. In fact, I am using Chrome. Will it produces accurate result?
Can i get optimized code of my website offline, so that we will compare both Old and New optimized code for future.
I can't wait until this rolls out to the public. I've encountered one bad site after another when it comes to page speed optimization, this could be a great solution.
Optimized version slower than original, any clarification for that ?
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110804_CD_7de7ff8184c5100fd894dd73c1ae5c9b/
Thanks SMS 4 Smile! what a good question from you. Me too, encountered the same results; this is the true results of mine where the optimized version reads 22.2s; whereas the original 20.9s. http://youtu.be/rFaBEClOe5s
Optimized version slower, and slower, and slower,..... than original :-(
I've tested mod_pagespeed a couple a days ago and my website speed and grade were improved. However I met some problems with CSS and turn it off, until I fix my Joomla template.
yeah! sound interesting.i have to think about that matter
Original Optimized Difference
3.126s 2.827s -0.299s (9.6%)
1.931s 1.498s -0.433s (22.4%)
And yet the page score drops from 97 to 91!
I'll just go make some more sprites and probably reduce the page load time by more then this. Nice try though.
I want to test the service,can you give me a activation code? my email is mtxt100 at gmail.com
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