How Google Could Speed Up Your Site

[gethan]

+ example.html Details: Save up to 13.7 KB, 1 requests, 3 DNS lookups
+ Enable gzip compression
- Compressing the following resources with gzip could reduce their transfer size by 13.7 KB:
  * http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js (13.7 KB)
+ Combine external JavaScript
+ Minimize DNS lookups 

With the number of sites out there using analytics - google could do their bit to speed up the web :)

[tedster]

LOL - that's on the money for sure. If a site uses Google Analytics, that JavaScript gets complained about on every Speed Check you try.

[levo]

ga.js is already compressed. They serve it uncompressed to the Googlebot...

[gethan]

Levo - yes - you are right... currently compressed to ~9K - now if they could update their labs tool that would be great.

[leadegroot]

It would be nice if Google created a subdomain which all their javascript was served from, to reduce those evil DNS lookups, as they seem so concerned by them, I reckon

[Seb7]

same as! This also led me to discover yesterday that the default IIS GZIP only zips up htm, html and txt files. I assumed for the last two years it was zipping everything! So edited the metabase to include other static files.. css, js and xml files, restarted, and wolla.