The team at Pingdom have looked at what is contributing to page bloat across the internet.
URL: http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/11/21/web-pages-getting-bloated-here-is-why/
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StumbleUpon too much of a speed anchor
The folks at Radware have dumped the StumbleUpon share function because there was no way to make it load asynchronously and slowed down their blogs.
URL: http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2011/11/18/stumbleupon-button-third-party-content/
Delivering Exceptional Performance in under a Second
The folks at DynaTrace explain why user expectations of site performance have changed and how that translates to the technical aspects.
The 3 Important Limits to Response Times
Expectations of loading/response times chunked into three segments – and what they mean for visitors.
URL: http://www.zurb.com/article/830/response-times-the-3-important-limits
How Google factors page speed into its search rankings
Joshua Bixby provides a great 12-point bullet list of the most-asked questions on how Google factors page speed into its rankings.
URL: http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2011/08/05/faqs-google-seo-search-ranking-website-speed/
Loosing 7% potential conversions
Speed Matters
2009 Google blog post signalling how much importance the search behemoth is placing on site speed.
URL: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/speed-matters.html
15 Tools to Help Speed Up Your Website
Using some of the tools and methods already linked to here at sitespeed.com.au, ReadWriteWeb outlines some great tips.
URL: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/15_tools_to_help_speed_up_your_website.php
Google launches Cloud-based Page Speed CDN
A significant offering, targeted to smaller, simpler website owners that don’t have the development or technical ability to invest in Website Performance Optimization (WPO). The actual Page Speed Service home has more details.
URL: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/07/page-speed-service-web-performance.html
Google +1 for speed
3rd party script snippets are often a source of speed bottlenecks, Google has sped-up their latest social add-on.
URL: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/07/1-button-now-faster.html