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How fast is your website?  Use webpage speed tester Google Page Speed, an awesome speedometer.

For decades website owners showed concern over speed issues, and back in the day web developers could blame it on the internet connection. Not anymore! Broadband being the standard, development now needs to be cleaner, appropriate and proficient.

“Dude! How fast does my website download?”

Obviously user experience matters and Google values webpage speed but more important is the question “How do I improve the speed?” and HOW ACCORDING TO GOOGLE.

The alternative, ySlow, developers current favorite tool runs very impressive speed stats … almost overkill.

According to topLingo developer Pete Mayo ”ySlow runs some dated stats, like claiming the importance of using images from a high bandwidth source other than the website you are using.” Then again, ySlow is from Yahoo.

Mayo elaborates (for the nerds) “YSlow puts weight in a “Content Delivery Network” (CDN) to load images onto the site, such as Amazon S3, which is a separate server dedicated and optimized for loading images. This is an Archaic way of measuring since at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is how fast your images load, especially under high traffic load.”

Translation:  What Google considers important … matters!

Meaning the use of a webpage speed testing tool from the search giant is a no brainer.  Simply, look at Google.com speed results tested in both tools, you’ll understand (and laugh)!

Google Page Speed – Test of Google.com

GRADE A or 99 of 100 … EXACTLY!

ySlow – Test of Google.com

GRADE D?  BAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!

FYI I’m a C Student

Well, my personal website MikeGlezos.com passed.  Barely.

*IMPORTANT NOTE: to reap the awesome benefits of speed fix solutions you need to install the Google Page Speed browser plugin for either Firefox or Chrome.

Testing for Non-Techies

As a final bonus, the general public gets an easy to use web based version. Page Speed Online for dummies.