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Google Page Speed Service

Google is entering the world of content delivery in a try to speed up page load, they pronounced the news on the official blog today. I thought to give it a try, so I went to sign up for Google speed service page to give it a try, but unfortunately, Google -like usual- is giving this service to a limited number of users, the interesting thing is this service won’t be free, but Google didn’t talk about pricing yet.

So, if you would like to join this service, I recommend you sign up for Google speed service now!

Here is a quote from Google’s official blog:

Page Speed Service is an online service that automatically speeds up loading of your web pages. To use the service, you need to sign up and point your site’s DNS entry to Google. 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. Now you don’t have to worry about concatenating CSS, compressing images, caching, gzipping resources or other web performance best practices.

In our testing we have seen speed improvements of 25% to 60% on several sites. But we know you care most about the numbers for your site, so check out how much Page Speed Service can speed up your site. If you’re encouraged by the results, please sign up. If not, be sure to check back later. We are diligently working on adding more improvements to the service.

Run tests to measure the speed up of your site

I’ve made a test to see how the difference between my original load time and the optimized load time, you also can do a test by visiting this site: Run a page load speed test.

The speed test took around 6 minutes which is fine, but the results is not what I expected, check it out the results below:

page speed comparisonAnd here is the other visual comparison results I’ve got:

page speed visual comparison - original vs optimized

As you can see in the results, no big change happened, no WOW!

My conclusion about Google speed service

Needless to say, this service won’t work well for everybody, it won’t make a big different of all sites and blogs, especially for people like us who spend many hours working and trying to enhance their page load speed. So, probably it will show different results for the big sites with really heavy content, hopefully it would be one of the best choices for them.

Run a page load speed test to see how the optimized speed service could reduce load time for your site, and if you would like to join this service, I recommend you sign up for Google speed service now!

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  1. Tushar Agarwal says:
    Google Pages Speed Service looks excellent, my page load time improved by 20%. Hope its open to public soon.
  2. courtney stodden says:
    Thanks for the update, there is no surprise at the moment is worth to keep an eye and grab an account.
  3. icechen1 says:
    Awesome! Another great service coming from Google for the price of 0$!
  4. Jane says:
    It's so strange that Google has not yet priced the service. So the secret little group of people are enjoying the service for free? That's cool. Are they supposed to give a feedback or something. But from what you have shown here, I am not impressed by the improvement in the speed. Let's see, Google always has surprises.
  5. greg says:
    I actually JUST found out about this new service today... I applied for an account to speed up one of my sites but I'm still waiting for the response! I am eager to apply the Speed codes to all my sites!!
  6. Sudheer Ranga says:
    Nice service. I should actually try this.
  7. Osho says:
    Thanks For Sharing Good Info :)
  8. AJ says:
    I just got the email from the Google Blog today on this new service and I must say I was actually wondering when they would so something like this. Anyway, @ Ditesco, I actually had a negative result as well for one of the values. But the overall was a bit faster. Personally I think that unless switching to the google service will give you a boost in ranking the best solution is to speed up your site by making real changes to your site's code, buying a CDN, serving a compressed version of your site and/or increasing the GPU usage and size of your SQL container. Making your changes yourself is probably the best way to go. At least at this point until they have something more solid.
  9. Jan Husdal says:
    Thanks for heads-up. I ran the same test from a couple of different locations from my site, and believe it or not my, site was actually slower with Page Speed than without Page Speed in Europe/Asia, and faster in the US...perhaps because my server is in the US? Hm... That said, Google is not the only provider to offer this kind of service. There is also torbit.com and yottaa.com (both in Beta and by invitation only, just like Page Speed) What is already available and free are cloudflare.com and incapsula.com. Not only do they improve performance they also improve website security and protect your blog against hackers and spammers. While CloudFlare is performance + security, Incapsula is security + performance, so depending on which is more more important to you, you can chose either one. I've tested both and written a post about it on my blog. While performance was equal, basically halving my loading time from 3-4 secs down to 1,5-2 secs for both services, I prefer Incapsula for better security (at least they offer in their free plan what CloudFlare only has in their paid plan). Both Incapsula and CloudFlare will work with Page Speed added to it, i.e. you can have speed + security.
    • Wong Chendong aka The Bad Blogger says:
      I have use cloudflare before as a paid user but disappointing is that their security setting doesn't suits me, though they are good but good till some of my readers send me email telling me is ignoring to get to my site as it had a page that actually want my readers to enter numbers and words correctly before letting them enter to my blog... When I know this I was furious, I contact cloudflare, but it took about 2 days later then I got a reply from them which is a second disappointment as I am a paid user but got damn slow respond. Though my experience with cloudflare wasn't good but still if anyone want to have powerful security on their website, you can considered using cloudflare... As for now, I had change to MAXCDN to run my blog, and it's great to see the difference in loading speed... I mean I can even see the difference, so no point complaining because it really loads that fast till you can even see and feel it what more can I say... I use the page test and here's the results: Original : 18.182 second Optimize: 11.634 second I'm not sure if this is a good results but it did cut 6 seconds faster.... One bad side is that, MAXCDN doesn't had security setting, its only a content delivery network...
  10. Tuan says:
    I've just tested with my site and the result is pretty amazing. The page load time is 53% faster and Repeat View Page Load Time is 75% faster although the design of my site is quite simple. I have no idea how they could optimize it so well, I am expecting I could get the account soon.
  11. Ming Jong Tey says:
    Hi Hesham, Thanks for the update. Though there is no surprise at the moment is worth to keep an eye and grab an account. Who know one day there will be major breakthrough by Google? Cheers Ming
    • Hesham says:
      Well, to me it was a nice to run the speed test as I thought my site was loading too slow, but it's kind of reasonable due images use, I need to find a way to get red of some images here or there :) Let's hope the best, and thanks Ming for stopping by
  12. DiTesco says:
    Yeah, not a big WOW to me too Hesham, at least as far as the test is concerned. Actually on one of my domains, the test resulted in a negative result, which surprised even more. Google did say that there are "tweaks" that they are still working on. Anyway, I already signed up for the service and let's see if I am a lucky enough to to be amongst the first to able to give it a test drive.. Only then can I truly see if it makes a difference.
    • Hesham says:
      Yes, it the test results are close (original vs customized), then what's the point? Probably this explains the limited access to the service, they want to test drive their performance first or something.
      • Wong Chendong aka The Bad Blogger says:
        Hey, did you know if your blog is loading slow you will get penalized by search engine, well I didn't know till when one day I check my Alexa Ranking at Alexa Website, it give me a warning at the bottom of the chart and tell me my loading speed for my blog is too slow and it might be penalized by search engine. So I went on to find a content delivery network to use, my first one is cloudflare which actually disappoint me in some way which I had explain in the reply comment above and now I'm using MAXCDN which actually does a great job in making my blog load faster...