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[/frame]Yesterday Google announced their latest innovation to help out everyone’s need for speed, the Google Page Speed Service. To directly quote Scott Knaster from the Google Code Blog:
Page Speed Service is an online service that automatically speeds up loading of your web pages. To use the service, you need to sign up and point your site’s DNS entry to Google. Page Speed Service fetches content from your servers, rewrites your pages by applying web performance best practices, and serves them to end users via Google’s servers across the globe. Your users will continue to access your site just as they did before, only with faster load times.
The service is being offered to a limited set of web developers at no cost. After the trial period, Page Speed will be released to everyone and, although there are no details, “pricing will be competitive” Google says. Try it out at http://code.google.com/speed/pss/
Before you get all giddy with excitement though there are a few limitations to note.
- Bare domains are not supported, i.e. you must use www.domain.com rather than domain.com.
- HTTPS pages are not supported.
- Flash, streamed audio, streamed video and files over 50MB are not supported.
- POST requests greater than 2MB are not supported.
- Domains hosted on Blogger, Google Sites or Google App Engine are not supported.