Google announced yesterday that they’ve released a new module for Apache (web server software) which will increase the page load time by up to 50%. This is awesome news because I’ve been struggling to maintain SA Business Directory for quite some time now. It’s just a lot more popular than I thought it would be and Drupal isn’t behaving as nicely as I would like it to.
What this module does it take fixes (or filters) that people implement on their sites to increase speed and then apply them to all your pages automatically on the fly. This means you don’t need to physically go and edit your CMS or your pages.
Google also releases varies install files for the different Linux distributions out there, so it’s very easy to setup. It literally took me about 15 seconds to get my Apache2 to load the new mod_pagespeed module.
My only concern is how much processing power it will take to apply these filters to each page before it is sent to a client. I’ll be monitoring the resources over the next couple of days and compare it to previous records. It has however increased the speed of the pages very noticeably.
To read more about mod_pagespeed visit http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/module.html
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