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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. google-analytics.com ? by corsec67 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I saw my browser waiting on google-analytics.com quite often before I started using No-Script.

    Why do sites put up with an AD server/analytics service that slows down a site by a large amount?

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    1. Re:google-analytics.com ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Because it's valuable data, and google is the only game in town. You can see which keywords are converting, and for what dollar amount, and which keywords are money pits. Yes, it will on occasion hang but you should look at the data that it produces before saying it's not worth it.

    2. Re:google-analytics.com ? by dintech · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yes, it will on occasion hang but you should look at the data that it produces before saying it's not worth it.

      Not worth it to who? It's not worth it to me. Noscript please.

  2. Re:Noscript by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's what noscript is for. With noscript, your browser doesn't even download the .js files.

    That's fine and dandy. IF.

    If you don't care to see or experience the vast majority of web sites on the Intertubes today.

    Honestly, when I see (yet another) pious elitist bleating about no-script or whatever, I wonder: Why don't you just surf in Lynx?

    If you're surfing with no-script, you're missing 75% of the Internet. If it's not the 75% you want to see and or experience, than good for you. But bleating about the creative uses of JavaScript on the World Wide Web is old news.

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  3. Re:Noscript by Jurily · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you're surfing with no-script, you're missing 75% of the Internet.

    Actually, it's more like 95%. However, you did completely miss the point. Turning off Noscript for a site you choose to bless takes two mouse clicks and a reload.

    You're not missing out on what you want to see. You're missing out on all the other random shit you couldn't care less about.