Google’s fascination at making the web faster stretches on to the Webmaster Tools via Site Performance analytics feature. Site Performance which is currently under Webmaster Tools Labs provides you with various information that indicates how fast your site loads from the user’s end.Site Performance gives you the average page load time of the different pages comprising your websites or blogs. It also provides you with appropriate suggestions that you can do to improve problem areas of your sites loading performance.
Google collects your site’s performance data from users who are using Google Toolbar and have enabled PageRank feature.
Site Performance is a pretty cool feature of Webmaster Tools. It’s quite interesting to see how your websites and blog design affects your site’s performance.
For instance, if you’re using a generic WordPress template, Site Performance can tell you whether multiple Javascripts and CSS templates are actually affecting your site loading time.
You may also install the Page Speed Browser-On from your Webmaster Tools account. This browser add-on will help you evaluate the performance of your pages as well as suggestion on how to improve them.
Well done ! It’s available in French Webmaster tools ?
The Webmasters tools tell me to optimize:
http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js
and:
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js
http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js
are two useless DNS calls.
Maybe google should optimize its tools too.
Ok analytics is going to be delayed, but i think now it’s still not stable.
Also a suggestion from google page speed is:
This page makes 51 parallelizable requests to 66.71.188.15. Increase download parallelization by distributing these requests across multiple hostnames:
Now they should take a decision: having lot of dns calls is good or bad?
Another question to consider is that the speed of a website is not only page load time. I have defined the dimensions of all elements in the page so the browser displays the “useful” content before the ads and the third column of the layout.
Also they should not penalize sites with google maps just because the map load is the slowest element on the page.
Not surprisingly of my ~20 websites, the few that have GA are the worst performers.
It recommends replacing GA.js script with the new asynch version.
Just deleting GA for these sites will be interesting to see the performance improvement. ^_^
Wow! Its a good news for me. Thanks for sharing! I can use it to know my site performance.
That’s great that they’ve added the feature…it’s much needed. Of course, using tools like pingdom also aid in minimizing load time.
Yslow (http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/) is also a great tool to optimize your websites performance.
The new google pagespeed is a fantastic tool, especially when used with the Yahoo tool. The google utility does a not of the grunt work for you (compressing javascript, images, css) and can save you a ton of time trying to do it yourself.
Thanks, I have not taken the time lately to check and see if there were any new features in the Webmaster’s Tools. I will have to set this up.