: How is the pagespeed in google webmaster tools measured? With the inclusion of the page performance in the google ranking algorithm, What things can be done to get better figures on the webmaster

@Cooney921

In reply to the title of your question, "Site performance" in Google Webmaster Tools is measured as "the total time from the moment the user clicks on a link to your page until the time the entire page is loaded and displayed in a browser".

And it's collected from people that have the Google Toolbar installed, with the PageRank feature activated.

Source: www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=158541&hl=en

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@Dunderdale272

There is a tool, open sourced by Google, called Page Speed:


Page Speed is an open-source
Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and
web developers can use Page Speed to
evaluate the performance of their web
pages and to get suggestions on how to
improve them.


So you can use this tool, direct from Google, to measure Page Speed.

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