Google Page Speed Online for Desktop and Mobile

Google announced the release of Page Speed Online yesterday. It’s a great way to check the performance of your site and get suggestions to make your site faster. And the tool works for mobile sites, where load times can be even more important with users who are on the go.

We know that Google has been giving a lot of attention to how fast sites load, even announcing that page speed is a factor in rankings back in April 2010. Faster sites are better for users, so it’s no surprise that Google favors faster sites.

“Speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and we’ve seen in our internal studies that when a site responds slowly, visitors spend less time there. But faster sites don’t just improve user experience; recent data shows that improving site speed also reduces operating costs. Like us, our users place a lot of value in speed — that’s why we’ve decided to take site speed into account in our search rankings. We use a variety of sources to determine the speed of a site relative to other sites.”

Here’s how the tool works:

Type in the URL of the page and click “Analyze Performance.”

You’ll then get a score, somewhere between 1 and 100, and a prioritized list of suggestions to make your site faster.

What do you think? Will this new tool help you to make your site faster?

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