Google initiatives towards making the Web faster are setting new dimensions now. Google latest release, A free software that could make many sites load twice as fast, is one such result.
Web performance is a primary issue today. Increasing the speed of a web page, whether by serving less bytes -through better compression or caching-, minimizing round-trips and optimizing the order of resource download for the browser as some ways to achieve high performance.
The software is known as mod_pagespeed is an open-source Apache module that automatically optimizes web pages and resources to improve the performance of their web pages when serving content with the Apache HTTP Server. The software will be automatically updated.
It includes filters for optimizing JPEG and PNG images & also optimizes JavaScript, HTML and CSS stylesheets.
Google already offers a tool called Page Speed that measures the speed at which a website loads and suggests ways to make improvements.
Supported platforms
- CentOS/Fedora (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Debian/Ubuntu (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Apache 2.2
Installation
Installing mod_pagespeed will add the Google repository so your system will automatically keep mod_pagespeed up to date. More on Installation[...]
To install the packages, on Debian/Ubuntu, please run (as root) the following command:
dpkg -i mod-pagespeed-*.deb apt-get -f install
For CentOS/Fedora, please execute (also as root):
yum install at (if you do not already have 'at' installed) rpm -i mod-pagespeed-*.rpm
Where it can be used?
Performing on-the-fly optimization in the Apache™ 2 HTTP Server, it can help:
- Webmasters
- Companies using content management systems.
- Web developers
“We think making the whole Web faster is critical to Google’s success,” says Rabbat, Product Manager for the new project.
Google tested mod_pagespeed on a representative sample of websites and found that it made some sites load three times faster, depending on how much optimization had already been done.
Thanks for the post..
I will definitely talk to our IT guy about installing this on our server. Thanks to some algorithm testing by the folks at SEOmoz it appears that page load speed is a significant part of the SEO puzzle, so implementing speed tools like this on the back-end is essential! Thanks for the heads up on this!
Useful to improve the performance of the web pages and when serving content software will automatically update. This blog discusses systematic ways to design, test, measure, and manage the performance of Web sites and Web applications.
That’s very good news for site developer is the Google latest release, A free software that could make many sites load twice as fast, is one such result.
Through the you can increase the speed of web page. By using this software the performance of their web pages when serving content with the Apache HTTP Server. So its good for us.
Yes this is really good Google make things reliable and easy to work. Thanks Google.
WOw, fast loading more views and good business.
I believe we will see a lot more of this type of thing in the future: aftermarket products to speed up existing software.
Life nowadays is fast.