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Google’s New Speed Tool Makes Websites Run with Blazing Speed

Posted by on October 1, 2011 8 comments

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.

If you have any queries & suggestion please share with us & comment your views.

Google says – Site Page Speed – May Become A Search Ranking Factor in 2010

Posted by on September 25, 2011 13 comments

How fast your page loads may have a direct effect on how your site ranks in Google? Don’t worry, it hasn’t had an impact…yet. But it could be in 2010. Google’s Matt Cutts discussed key ingredients in an interview with WebProNews out in Vegas – Says that Algorithm Change Would Make Slow Sites Rank Lower

We have seen Google’s New Code Project “Let’s make the web faster” few days before, it also shows that Google is very much concerned about the site speed.

Slowpokes to get penalized in Google search rankings 2010

Google pulls in a few hundred different factors in search rankings and pushes changes to the underlying algorithm at least once a day on average.

Matt Cutts said:

We’re starting to think more and more about — should speed be a factor in Google’s rankings? I mean, in AdWords, if your site is slow, that can be a factor in how much you have to pay in AdWords.

Historically we haven’t used it in our search rankings, but a lot of people within Google think the web should be fast.

It should be a good experience, so it’s sort of fair to say if you’re a fast site, maybe you should get a bit of a bonus. Or if you’re a really awfully slow site, maybe users don’t want that as much.

I think a lot of people in 2010 are going to be thinking more about ‘how do I have my site be fast,’ how do I have it be rich without writing a bunch of custom javascript?’

From the sound of it, speed is going to be a huge factor in SEO moving in to 2010. Making your site faster is going to benefit you in better serach rankings after an year if this is going to be true. So, Webmasters have to start optimizing it for speed anyway.

So, techniques like using WordPress cache plugins to staticize, speedup & increase responsiveness of webpages can be very effective.

What do you think about this? Share with us techniques, plugins in wordpress that would be very helpful making websites faster?

How to Speed up Mozilla Firefox about 3-30x Faster

Posted by on December 8, 2009 6 comments

Firefox 3.5.5 releases promises a lot of new Features that provide its users a much better experience in browsing the web world. Already a browser war is going on the web & but everything is revolving around faster access, faster results & speed factors.

See also How to Accelerate Internet Browsing Speed on your Mobile 3 times faster than now.

Here are some very effective techniques that can make your Mozilla Firefox 3-30x faster then now.

How to Speed up Mozilla Firefox about 3-30x Faster

1. Open Firefox & Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll
down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading. So, Double click all those entries to Enable them.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

How to Speed up Mozilla Firefox about 3-30x Faster

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer.
Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0“.
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

4. After altering the entries given above close the firefox window and restart.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages 3-30 times faster now. See also How to Make your Web Searches More Effective & 10 Times Faster | Use Operators & Limiters

Any questions, queries, views??? Share them below through your comments.

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