I had a bit of a laugh after trying Google's new Page Speed Service, which claims that it "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". This can apparently make your website between 25% and 60% faster.
Naturally I gave it a try on ISPreview.co.uk's front page, which usually only takes around 2 seconds to finish loading (ironically it'd probably take 1 second if it wasn't for Google's own translation and ad systems). Here's the results (first score is our original speed, second is the new speed) and remember that Google isn't using UK servers for this.. the nearest we could pick was Ireland.
Page Load Time
3.753s [Current]
4.221s [New]
+0.468s (12.5%)
Start Render Time
1.648s [Current]
1.720s [New]
+0.072s (4.4%)
Repeat View Page Load Time
2.572s [Current]
3.103s [New]
+0.531s (20.6%)
Repeat View Start Render Time
1.378s [Current]
1.697s [New]
+0.319s (23.1%)
So, nice try Google, and thanks for making ISPreview.co.uk between 4.4% and 23.1% slower to load. We'll skip your service, if you don't mind .
http://www.webpagetest.org/compare
Naturally I gave it a try on ISPreview.co.uk's front page, which usually only takes around 2 seconds to finish loading (ironically it'd probably take 1 second if it wasn't for Google's own translation and ad systems). Here's the results (first score is our original speed, second is the new speed) and remember that Google isn't using UK servers for this.. the nearest we could pick was Ireland.
Page Load Time
3.753s [Current]
4.221s [New]
+0.468s (12.5%)
Start Render Time
1.648s [Current]
1.720s [New]
+0.072s (4.4%)
Repeat View Page Load Time
2.572s [Current]
3.103s [New]
+0.531s (20.6%)
Repeat View Start Render Time
1.378s [Current]
1.697s [New]
+0.319s (23.1%)
So, nice try Google, and thanks for making ISPreview.co.uk between 4.4% and 23.1% slower to load. We'll skip your service, if you don't mind .
http://www.webpagetest.org/compare