Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Make the web faster with mod_pagespeed, now out of...

mod_pagespeed is a key part of our goal to help make the web faster for everyone. Users prefer faster sites and we have seen that faster pages lead to higher user engagement, conversions, and retention. In fact, page speed is one of the signals in search ranking and ad quality scores. Besides evangelizing for speed, we offer tools and technologies to help measure, quantify, and improve performance, such as Site Speed Reports in Google Analytics, PageSpeed Insights, andPageSpeed Optimization products. In fact, both mod_pagespeed and PageSpeed Service are based on our open-source PageSpeed Optimization Libraries project, and are important ways in which we help websites take advantage of the latest performance best practices.

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Make the web faster with mod_pagespeed, now out of...: If your page is on the web, speed matters. For developers and webmasters, making your page faster shouldn’t be a hassle, 

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