Google Releases Mod_pagespeed For A Faster Apache!

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 | code, google, Open Source, Tools, Utilities, Web Hosting, WebApps

Running your website or app off a small VPS or old computer? Want to speed up load times? Google can help! Today Google released a new apache module called mod_pagespeed that implements over 15 server optimizations that supposedly can reduce page load times by up to 50%! Some important features of mod_pagespeed are an improved optimized cache as well as minimized payload size and a reduced number of client-server round trips. This is ideally aimed at small businesses and those hosting on low/shared resources, perfect for any DIY developer (or even small hosting company) however Google has already been working with huge tech companies to implement the module on an enterprise level.

Big services like GoDaddy.com and the Cotendo CDN have already implemented the module on their own networks of servers.

Here’s a side-by-side video comparison of the Google Adsense blog with and without mod_pagespeed:

It was a piece of cake to install, just follow the instructions on the official Google Code page for mod_pagespeed.

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