<story><title>Google Releases mod_pagespeed for Apache</title><url>http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/11/make-your-websites-run-faster.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>There are some very interesting filters:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/filters.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/filters.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It will automatically strip inline css and js out of a html page and then create links to an external version. It will automatically set very long cache times. It minifies css and javascript on the fly, strips whitespace and comments from the html.&lt;p&gt;Then for images, it automatically rescales them, strips out meta data and recompresses. It even converts img tags to use data: uris when it&apos;s safe and efficient to do so.&lt;p&gt;I love it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Releases mod_pagespeed for Apache</title><url>http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/11/make-your-websites-run-faster.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jellicle</author><text>That&apos;s pretty cool, though the biggest slowdown for most sites are all of the third-party scripts being loaded from remote servers.  If people really realized how much page speed matters in usability, they would be loathe to add in all the scripts from facebook and digg and google and 12 different analytics services.</text></comment>