Today, Google has released a tool Page Speed, which was internally used by Google developers to improve the performance of Google websites. Page Speed is a Firefox plug-in, integrated with Firebug. After installing Page Speed, the tools adds two menus to the Firebug window – Page Speed and Page Speed Activity. Page Speed tool gives you several suggestions on how to speed up the page loading time and Page Speed Activity acts as a recording tool for the network activity of your web pages.
Installing and Using Page Speed:
Download the Page Speed tool from your Firefox browser and install the add-on. To use the Page tool, open the Firebug window and select the Page Speed option from it. When you run the Page Speed tool against any website, the tool validates the website resources against a set of pre-defined rules. The rules are nothing but some of the widely accepted best practices for improving the page load time, such as:
- Cache optimization
- Minimizing round trip times
- Minimizing request time
- GZipping the files
Not only the above suggestions, but when I ran this tool against my blog, it gave much more interesting suggestions on improving CSS styles too. Along with each suggestion, the tool gives a list of files that are needs to tweaked, which is really helpful.
Page Speed Activity is a graphical tool for visualizing the network activity of your webpages. When your pages are loading in browser, the request time and the time taken for downloading it are recorded against a timed graph, thus enabling us to easily spot the bottleneck.
In short, Page Speed is an useful tool to for web developers, to improve their web page performance.
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Its really great tool for webmaster also for developer. As a developer and blogger i am using this tool now. Thank you to share as briefly.
Hi Shankor,
Welcome to my blog!
Page Speed is suggesting some real-good optimizations, when I ran it in my blog. Those suggestions are all helpful and I’ve implemented few too. I hope Page Speed will become a must-have tool, similar to Firebug.
Sounds like a nice tool I’ll look into it. The faster my page loads the better
Yes. Page speed gives useful suggestions on improving performance, that we often miss to notice/
Is page speed integrated on newer versions of Firebug? I've just installed mine but haven't noticed the Page Speed option.
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Is it working with Firefox 4 ?
hi, i install the latest page speed, but seem to be missing the page speed activity tab on google chrome and firefox.
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