Google Page Speed is
out of Google Labs and is official now. For those
unfamiliar, Page Speed is a pretty awesome tool that tells
developers how the speed of their sites can be improved. Put in a
URL and Page Speed will tell you all of the ways you can optimize
-- whether its compressing files, utilizing caching, or deleting
unused CSS styles.
Page Speed will prioritize these suggestions for you by
priority, and tell you what you are already doing well!
Encouragement and positive reinforcement rocks!
This tool also lets you look at a web page through the eyes of a
mobile device. This is extremely helpful as optimization on mobile
is key. Small images should be loaded (not just shrunk down to fit)
and being on a cellular network doesn't give these devices a lot of
bandwidth to download fast.
Put your website in Google Page Speed and tell us what you
learned!
- Chad Schulz
Internet Improvement Engineer