Google Pagespeed Insight API Updated With More Information

[engine]

Google's John Mueller said that the PageSpeed API was updated which give more information about speed and page score, and "clearer format for text-responses."

More information is available at getting started with the PageSpeed API [developers.google.com...]

[goodroi]

Surprising how little attention many webmasters pay to their site speed. It indirectly influences so much.

[engine]

I have been testing some sites for their speed today and i was really surprised how many were poor. Some were rocking, some absolutely terrible, with the vast majority slow-ish to acceptable.

There's a whole market out there that needs webmaster help!

[ergophobe]

engine knows my pain here...

There are two problems as I see it

- developers and designers who either are ignorant or know the client is ignorant and so they can do things on a lower budget by taking one constraint (speed) completely out of the equation.

- clients who, in the face of advice from their developers and designers, insist on adding features and images and media that weigh down the site.

Tools like this are very helpful. We had a discussion at my new job where they were criticizing a competitor site as being terribly slow. Using a tool I was able to point out that the competitor site was over twice as light and fast as our site, but that due to caching and local network effects, they weren't seeing it.

I think a few people finally understood what I was talking about. We'll see - complete rebuild of the site (new CMS entirely) coming in a few months. Unfortunately, still running on a Windows stack which does not have a Page Speed module.

So... Page Speed for Windows? Any ideas?