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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
Rather interesting new bit from Google: on-the-fly page/site optimization. Wonder what the magic trick is... I'll have to look into it as soon as I have some Spare Time. [hollow laugh]
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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 09:03:53 -0700 From: Diana Wilson <[email protected]> To: TAG <[email protected]> To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: Developer News: Making Websites Run Faster by 2xHi, We just?launched a new open-source Apache module called mod_pagespeed that any webmasters can use to quickly and automatically optimize their sites. (It's like Page Speed, but makes the changes automatically.) It can reduce page load times by up to 50% -- in other words, essentially speeding up websites by roughly 2x. This is one of our more significant "speeding up the web" contributions.?
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Mulyadi Santosa [mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com]
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 02:05, Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> wrote:
> Rather interesting new bit from Google: on-the-fly page/site > optimization. Wonder what the magic trick is... I'll have to look into > it as soon as I have some Spare Time. [hollow laugh]
And here is the URL: http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/index.html
I must say, without giving initial test, it looks promising. But I wonder, does it make server reply slower? I imagine the optimization is done on the fly toward every HTML or dynamic page requested. Or maybe it implements somekind of cache?
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Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]
On 4 November 2010 02:06, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 02:05, Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> wrote: >> Rather interesting new bit from Google: on-the-fly page/site >> optimization. Wonder what the magic trick is... I'll have to look into >> it as soon as I have some Spare Time. [hollow laugh] > > And here is the URL: > http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/index.html > > I must say, without giving initial test, it looks promising. But I > wonder, does it make server reply slower? I imagine the optimization > is done on the fly toward every HTML or dynamic page requested. Or > maybe it implements somekind of cache?
I would imagine so. The previous release was a Firefox extension, but most of the individual parts were command-line tools to optimise various image formats, and to strip HTML of non-necessities.
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