Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Page Speed for Chrome, and in 40 languages!

(Cross-posted from the Google Webmaster Central Blog.)


Today we’re launching the most requested feature for Page Speed, Page Speed for Chrome. Now Google Chrome users can get Page Speed performance suggestions to make their sites faster, right inside the Chrome browser. We would like to thank all our users for your great feedback and support since we launched. We’re humbled that 1.4 M unique users are using the Page Speed extension and finding it useful to help with their web performance diagnosis.

Google Chrome support has always been high on our priority list but we wanted to get it right. It was critical that the same engine that powers the Page Speed Add-On for Firefox be used here as well. So we first built the Page Speed SDK, which we then integrated into the Chrome extension.

Page Speed for Chrome retains the same core features as the Firefox add-on. In addition, there are two major improvements appearing in this version first. We’ve improved scoring and suggestion ordering to help web developers focus on higher-potential optimizations first. Plus, because making the web faster is a global initiative, Page Speed now supports displaying localized rule results in 40 languages! These improvements are part of the Page Speed SDK, so they will also appear in the next release of our Firefox add-on as well.

If your site serves different content based on the browser’s user agent, you now have a good method for page performance analysis as seen by different browsers, with Page Speed coverage for Firefox and Chrome through the extensions, and Internet Explorer via webpagetest.org, which integrates the Page Speed SDK.

We’d love to hear from you, as always. Please try Page Speed for Chrome, and give us feedback on our mailing list about additional functionality you’d like to see. Stay tuned for updates to Page Speed for Chrome that take advantage of exciting new technologies such as Native Client.

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  2. I had an issue with installation but realized I skipped step #1 in all the excitement. Worked like a charm after changing the api setting!

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  4. So now site owners have less reasons to blame Google for low traffic or negative movements in rankings.. right?

    You tell them what to do in webmaster tools & dev tools now. If you're giving them recommendations on where to rank, what to fix, and pretty much checklists for page speed the accountability falls on them!

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  5. Google Chrome is one best thing that it's so light. You can work on it with a slow pc. Its amazing.

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