Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Google Page Speed

Google has Introduced Page Speed, an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on.  Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the  performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve  them.  Google Page speed is very much in analogy of Yahoo’s YSlow a similar  Firefox/Firebug plugin which analyzes web pages and suggests ways to  improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance  web pages, although google come late with such thing nevertheless  Google’s Page Speed provide bit more in-depth analysis than YSlow.  Page Speed performs several tests on a site’s web server configuration  and front-end code. These tests are based on a set of best practices  known to enhance web page performance. Webmasters who run Page Speed on  their pages get a set of scores for each page, as well as helpful  suggestions on how to improve its performance.  Page Speed add-on also displays a timeline of network, cache and  Javascript timeline event and events are displayed along the timeline  and one can also record activities and collect complete call graphs for  any single web page.  http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/ http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rules_intro.html http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/using.html  If someone downloads it and finds it useful, please do comment here with  details.  ~Sri 

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