Joshua Benton from Nieman Lab gives an introduction to the new open source approach from Google that looks to speed up mobile load times.
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The Google Gospel of Speed
From 2012, this article from Google’s SVP of Infrastructure, Urs Hoelzle, outline’s the search giant’s focus on Speed.
URL: https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/articles/the-google-gospel-of-speed-urs-hoelzle.html
Reaching a 100 scored on Google PageSpeed
Dan Riti explains how he took a relatively standard BootStrap example website and optimized it to achieve a score of 100 on Google’s PageSpeed Insights.
Google’s PageSpeed Module for IIS
IISpeed is an IIS webserver extension that ports mod_pagespeed from Google.
Google’s PageSpeed Service reviewed
Brant from x-pose.org reveals the results from testing Google’s PageSpeed Service (not to be confused with mod_pagespeed also provided by Google, or their PageSpeed testing tool).
TL;DR: a minor increase in response times was offset but seconds saved in page load times.
URL: http://x-pose.org/2012/12/google-pagespeed-service-review/
Automating Web Performance with mod_pagespeed
Google’s Developer Advocate and Web Performance engineer gives a full breakdown on the performance gains that you can achieve with Google’s mod_pagespeed Apache module that he contributed to.
URL: http://www.igvita.com/2012/10/10/automating-web-performance-with-mod_pagespeed/
Google Analytics adds enhanced Site Speed reporting
Google has gone from a single metric on website speed performance, to a more comprehensive report that covers an overview, as well as page timings. These reports are now also integrated into other areas of the wider Analytics toolset – such as Intelligence reports that can be configured to create custom alerts.
URL: http://analytics.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/measure-your-websites-performance-with.html
The biggest misconception about Google Page Speed
The folks at Catchpoint explain why a great “Page Speed” score (as calculated by Google), doesn’t equate to increased page speed.
URL: http://blog.catchpoint.com/2011/12/27/biggest_misconception_about_google_page_speed/
Site Speed and Crawl Rate
If any proof was needed that speed had an impact on how Google treats your site, then this should be it.
Google enhances Site Speed reporting in Analytics
Google’s Analytics solution has had an enhancement made to site speed reporting that provides more technical information on each phase of the request/response for pages tracked on websites.
URL: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/12/greater-insights-from-site-speed-report.html