December 20th, 2012

Google Updates Mod_Pagespeed With Smarter Caching, Progressive JPEGs

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Google wants the web to be as fast as possible and it’s been working on a number of initiatives like SPDY, PageSpeed Tools, its hosted libraries and, of course, its Chrome browser. One tool that doesn’t get quite as much press as projects like Chrome and SPDY is mod_pagespeed for the open-source Apache web server. Mod_pagespeed automatically implements a number of performance-optimization… → Read More

August 3rd, 2012

Google Updates PageSpeed Service, Promises To “Turbocharge Your Website”

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Google just launched an update to PageSpeed Service, its hosted website optimization and caching service, that promises to get your site’s content onto your users’ screens even faster. PageSpeed Service is Google’s effort to optimize websites on the fly. The service, which launched in beta almost exactly a year ago, basically re-writes parts of your site to optimize its loading time.

The only… → Read More