Faster Applications = Fast Web. Google Speed Tracer Released
In the past month Google has been preparing website owners and developers for its intent to encourage and reward fast websites.
Speed has become very important to Google - not only does it want its users to have a high quality user experience, it also wants to speed up your access to their services.
Recent announcements and releases include:
- Page Speed Firefox Addon. Helps diagnose website speed blocks.
- Ranking. Fast websites will be favored over slow websites in its search results.
- SPDY Protocol. HTTP alternative that reduces latency, increases website speed.
- Google Analytics. Faster tracking code load times for web pages.
- Site Performance: Google Webmaster Central tool. Presents information about the speed of your site and suggestions for making it faster.
- Google Public DNS. Promising faster browsing speeds.
- And, the latest Speed Tracer. Helps diagnose web application speed blocks.
At its latest Campfire event this week, Google introduced version 2.0 of the Google Web Toolkit; a set of programming tools designed to simplify the development of web applications and maximize your web performance.
One of the new tools introduced was Speed Tracer a Google Chrome extension that allows developers to profile web application performance and identify sources of slowness.
Speed Tracer charts the speed of your web application on a graph, where a score close to zero on the Y-axis means your application is fast, and a score near 100 means it's slow. You can use Speed Tracer to diagnose what's slowing your application down ,according to Google, it can analyze "JavaScript parsing and execution, layout, CSS style recalculation and selector matching, DOM event handling, network resource loading, timer fires, XMLHttpRequest callbacks, painting, and more."