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In Chrome, you can open the developer tools, click in the device icon (1), and then select the connection throttling (2).
Edit (2015-11-03)
Since around Chrome 45, it actually got a little bit easier: you don't have to be in device mode anymore.
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Yahoo's tips for improving page sped
Google's tips for improving page speed
If you're using PHP, Google's tips for making PHP faster
Here's a basic list as comprised from Google's Page Speed addon (here's Yahoo's YSlow):
Leverage browser caching
Specify image dimensions
Avoid CSS @import
Avoid bad requests
Combine images into CSS sprites
...
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It is referring to Response Headers and not document body ("Content-Type tag").
If you check Response Headers of your page with any HTTP Debugger (for example, Net panel of Firebug for Firefox, or similar tab of Developer Tools in Google Chrome/Internet Explorer/Safari/Opera), you will see this line:
Content-Type: text/html
At the same time, if you check ...
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The figure I keep hearing is that you should keep it below two seconds, that's actually Google's recommendation. There is a ClickZ article on page load times written by Bryan Eisenberg, where he mentions that:
Several influential people (SEOs and marketing execs) have shared with
me that getting load time under the two-second load time mark, as
...
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As covered here, GitHub Pages is served with Nginx and automatically gzip's content.
You can confirm gzip compression for your site by checking the HTTP headers with online tools like this one. Enter the URL to a webpage or resource, and type in gzip under "Accept-Encoding" to indicate that the HTTP client (i.e., the online testing tool in this case) ...
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The base64 image option should be used where you would only have a very small number of images and you want to eliminate the network overhead of fetching a picture from the server. However from what you are indicating in the question I assume this could scale to a large number of images. In this case I would use a single 1px x 1px transparent image from the ...
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Browsers download data in parallel and try to start rendering the page as soon as possible.
If you do not specify the size, the browser has no idea how large the image is going to be until after the image download is fully complete.
This delay forces the browser to repaint or reflow the layout - delaying the page load time.
The more images with this ...
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As of 2011, you will see the first drop in page performance after 14.6 KB has been sent. For the speediest page, all of your HTML code from the first byte up to and including the critical CSS should fit within this amount of data.
14.6 KB is the size of an HTTP server's initial TCP congestion window assuming a default TCP IW value of 10 (which was agreed on ...
answered Oct 10 '18 at 18:07
Maximillian Laumeister
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You can slow down specific resources with Deelay.me:
<img src="http://deelay.me/1000?http://mysite.com/image.gif">
Deelay.me is a delay proxy for web resources. You can use it with your images/stylesheets/scripts, to increase their load time.
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Moving unique static files to your own domain to reduce domain lookups and control expire headers is a good idea, provided you're prepared to check the master files for changes periodically.
Moving common static files to your own domain is not always a good idea, because you lose the benefit if they're already cached from another site the user may have ...
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If your framework/CMS/whatever has the appropriate functions, you can include the scripting conditionally as @Michael suggests, but without the additional library.
Taking your datatables case, for example, WordPress might handle the situation via something like:
// For reference; this isn't functional code.
if (is_page('whatever')) {
<script src="/...
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You have no control over them because they are hosted by another provider. And honestly speaking you should not worry about them, it's up to Google, Facebook, etc to handle the caching accordingly to their need.
You could potentially proxy the URLs or download the files locally, but I don't encourage you to follow that route. In fact, you may potentially ...
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Initial Connection
You will find that the initial connection includes negotiating the SSL, so since the handshake is high, its a good indicator that something is seriously wrong with the way you have setup the SSL.
Google Chrome: Understanding Resource Timing
Time it took to establish a connection, including TCP handshakes/retries and negotiating a ...
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The URL change is a mix of an old feature of HTML when calling an A tag with hashes,
<a href="#home">Go to my home</a>
<p>TextTextTextTextTextTextText</p>
<a id="home">
that makes possible linking parts of the same page without reloading at all,
and a new HTML5 JavaScript window object
window.onhashchange
This new object it'...
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There's a bunch of tools that illustrate the waterfall (the cascading chain of HTTP requests from the browser to the server):
gtMetrix (combines ySlow and PageSpeed)
pingdom tools
http://loadimpact.com/page-analyzer
webpagetest (best in my opinion)
Also, note that your point:
...browsers can only load 6 resources at a time...
is not quite correct, ...
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this does it:
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
// dynamically Load Ads out-of-band
setTimeout((function ()
{
// placeholder for ads
var eleAds = document.createElement("ads");
// dynamic script element
var eleScript = document.createElement("script");
// remember the implementation of document.write ...
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Yes, they do count images. The count how long it takes to download the HTML and all static (JavaScript, CSS) and embedded content (images, flash) on the page.
From here (this isn't specifically about Google algorithm but it matches everything I have found about it so far including Matt Cutts post):
The "Performance overview" graph in
the Labs Site ...
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For MacOSX ImageOptim optimizes the images. Internally it uses the same tools used by google page speed.
http://imageoptim.com
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Yes, it is. Making users download useless extra image data just so the browser can resize the image to less than half the size is bad practice, and it's one of the warning signs of a poorly designed/developed website.
If you want to improve page performance why wouldn't you reduce unnecessary bandwidth usage? That's like asking, "If I want to get better ...
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A couple of hours on, and I realise I could perhaps have checked Google Webmaster Tools before posting my question.
GWT have the kind of overview I wanted under Labs -> Site Performance
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You can use requirejs to dynamically load the libraries you need only on that pages. Then you only have to load the requirejs (which is about 14k) on all pages, saving about 385kb.
Integration is also very easy: just "wrap" the code you have with the require include stuff:
require(["jquery", "jquery.alpha", "jquery.beta"], function($) {
//the jquery....
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Based on your reference to the ImageMagick convert method and quality parameter, it appears you're working with JPEG images. If that's the case, the EXIF information for JPEG images does not have a standard compression level tag.
However, ImageMagick appears to be able to obtain this information from the image's quantization tables using the identify ...
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IFrame's are by nature slower due to the overhead they add while rendering a new page within the browser window. And some browsers are slower at rendering iFrame's than others (i.e., IE).
As the chart here demonstrates, iFrames can cost up to 100x more time to create elements than scripts and styles.
IFrame's will also block a window's onload event until ...
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Reading the title of your question, there are two things you can do to speed up the initial connection and SSL/TLS handshake. These work for any connection, not just 3G, so you should use these as best practice anyway.
First, use HTTP/2 to serve the site. This requires Apache 2.4.17 or later.
Second, configure Apache to use OCSP stapling. This requires ...
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In both cases jquery is being loaded from mountain view servers
I don't think this is true.
As you said, ajax.googleapis.com is 'located' in Mountain View (according to Geo tools). This server is responding (ping) in 24 ms (my location: Switzerland), but with speed of light it actually needs 68 ms. So I don't get routed to Mountain View at all, since ...
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I don't have any data that directly correlates page speed with click thrus. However, this article shows how important page speed is in a variety of other areas and may be useful to you:
Amazon: 100 ms delay caused a drop in revenue.
Google: 400 ms delay caused a 0.59% decrease in search requests per
user.
Yahoo!: 400 ms delay caused a 5-9% ...
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Almost certainly no. Every network request is sent using packets usually of 1500 bytes. If the request is under 1500 bytes (including the URL, cookies etc) then it makes no difference whether it's 30 bytes or 1300 bytes. Even if a request spans 2 packets the difference would be negligible - that's definitely a micro-optimisation you don't need to do unless ...
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You could try http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/
Click "Uploader" and select all images that needs to be "smushed".
Your files will be uploaded to their server, become optimized without quality loss, and you will then be able to download all images in a zip file.
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If you're using the Google Page Speed extension for Firefox, then a copy of the optimized images (as well as JavaScript and CSS files) are put in a temporary folder.
http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/using_firefox.html#advanced
You can then take these out, cleanup the file names, and reuse them.
Download Google Page Speed extension for Firefox
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Please note: I am answering based on what you've described above only (which, while descriptive, isn't the same as analysing the source(s)).
To your questions above:
From Google Page Speed's own FAQ:
Some of the suggestions differ from the Page Speed browser extensions. Why?
Page Speed Online uses a different rendering engine and user agent, which may ...
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