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Google Shares Insights On Accelerating Web Sites

Posted by samzenpus on from the hurry-it-up dept.

miller60 writes "The average web page takes 4.9 seconds to load and includes 320 KB of content, according to Google executive Urs Holzle. In his keynote at the O'Reilly Velocity conference on web performance, Holzle said that competition from Chrome has made Internet Explorer and Firefox faster. He also cited the potential for refinements to TCP, DNS, and SSL/TLS to make the web a much faster place, and cited compressing headers as a powerful performance booster. Holzle also noted that Google's ranking algorithm now includes a penalty for sites that load too slowly."

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  1. First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    If only Slashdot loaded faster I could have had my first post!

  2. I prefer low-tech solutions... by Lord_of_the_nerf · · Score: 5, Funny

    I find my browsing goes faster if I just yell at my housemate to stop downloading torrents that are *ahem* 'Barely Legal'.

  3. Re:How fast? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I wonder if the people behind Google were smart enough to consider this?

  4. Re:Noscript by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey well looky here, we have 2 gramps in our midst.

    For that, not only am i going to stand on your lawn, i'm going to rip out grass in the shape of a stencil of goatse.