Introducing Google's tools for measuring how fast your blog loads
This quick-tip describes some tools that I've recently discovered that measure page-load speed and make suggestions about how to improve it. Google have said a number of times that page-load-speed (ie how quickly a visitor to your blog sees it load onto the screen) is one of the factors in SEO. And even if SEO isn't important to your blog in terms of getting visitors, page-load speed is important for making your visitors happy : even your mother isn't going to be happy if your blog takes five minutes to show her the pictures of your new baby. So Google's tools for measuring and improving page-load speed are valuable tools for most bloggers. Where to find them: The tools are available at https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/ The most important one for Bloggers is in the Analyze section, called Insights, found under the "Analyze your site online" link . There are other tools there, too (eg an API, the Page-speed service, extensions for certain browser...