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/
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Satisfying the Chinese demand through speed
StrangeLoop conducted a report on luxury brand sites from one of the biggest, and most demanding, internet populations – China.
URL: http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2011/08/02/luxury-web-site-performance-page-load-china/
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
Web Developer’s Guide to Pre-rendering in Chrome
Chrome, along with FireFox, are looking for was to speed up website experiences in the browser by adding cues to the HTML.
URL: http://code.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/prerender.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
Which Loads Faster?
A fun tool to compare between two sites to see ‘which loads faster’. Options include testing each site on GTMetrix and multiple loads.
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
30 Ways to Optimise your Site for Speed
Site Speed with an SEO twist.
URL: http://www.seoptimise.com/blog/2011/02/30-ways-to-optimise-your-site-for-speed.html