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We all know Google is fast, amazingly fast. It is one of the reasons Google is so popular and what made them so to begin with. So how did they do it? Do those braniacs working over at Google just know things we don’t? Well probably, but braniacs also have tools to help them along called Google Page Speed, and now everyone has the potential to be nearly as fast as Google.
Now recently open sourced, Page Speed is an in-house tool used by the internal Google teams. The Page Speed plug-in (firefox only) runs tests on your site based off of “Web Performance Best Practices”. These best practices are:
1. Optimizing Cache
2. Minimizing round-trip times
3. Minimizing request times
4. Minimizing Payload Size
5. Optimizing Browser Rendering
Once following each of those practices, you can run the Page Speed plug-in and you will be provided with a score and a set of suggestions to help you improve your code. This is definitely a big help for all the developers out there, and since Google does know what they are doing this is a tool no serious web developer should pass up. The best part to me though is that Page Speed is open source, so you can edit and improve that little bugger to your hearts content.
If you wish to download and use Page Speed simply go here. Leave your thoughts in the comments and tell us here at Techgeist how much it did/did not help you out.
