Google offers Page Speed Service

So does your website take an age to load? Did you know site speed has been a signal in Googles mighty algorithm for some time.

Well there could be an easy answer, point your site at Googles servers, and Google will speed your site up for you

"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"

Sound too good to be true? Check it out and see if you can get your site included.
Page Speed Service: Web performance, delivered. - The official Google Code blog

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Thanks for info.

Tried the test on my site and got substantial speed improvements.

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One of mine was 19% slower! After optimization!

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lol outstanding.

Do you reckon its a blip, or is there something obvious that it seems to be struggling with, unusual graphic/file format?

Always interesting when you try and apply a one size fits all formula. I guess more odd results may appear as this service grows.

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I'm just worried that subjecting the site to it might have everything being redone and it looks like gobledigook. I did not have a total hand in designing the site (other than a few images, the mascot etc..) but I was responsible for making sure it loaded fast, had the right amount of content etc.

I believe at one point I sat with a stopwatch Seriously....

I don't really think our site needs it as it loads really well regardless of what speed you're running at. And if we did have that problem, I would be sorting it out.. not the big G.
For me its a case of too many cooks spoil the broth, when it comes to handing a site over to a third party where you have no control over the changes they make to it.

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Google really care about website loading speed and give very much importance to it. Secondly i think people like those website which open quickly. Visitors don't wait long for website opening and switch to other website in quick time. So is very visible to optimize the website in term of loading speed. It will decrease the bounce rate which is very god for website. Thanks for sharing the links.

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I think its because they use a third party caching service / DNS caching - as i host a lot of images and code locally that slows things down, rather than speed things up.

Time to first page display is 19% slower - but the last page element is faster.

So I its far better as it is.

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