Google has open sourced an Apache server module which is designed to speed up website performance. It is supposedly based on the mystery google web server that the company uses to serve its own pages.
Known as "mod_pagespeed," the Apache module speeds performance in 15 separate ways, including optimizing page caching, minimizing client-server round trips, and reducing payload size.
The module can change pages built by your content management system without requiring changes to the CMS itself. Google says it has seen the module reduce page load times by up to 50 per cent on a random sample of sites."mod_pagespeed is an open-source Apache module that automatically optimizes web pages and resources on them," Google says. "It does this by rewriting the resources using filters that implement web performance best practices. Webmasters and web developers can use mod_pagespeed to improve the performance of their web pages when serving content with the Apache HTTP Server."
Google is working with GoDaddy to run the Apache module with "many" of the hosting outfit's 8.5 million customers.
You can download the module here. Google offers 32-bit and 64-bit binaries, and it has been tested on CenOS and Ubuntu, but it may also run on other Debian-based and RPM-based Linux distros. It requires Apache 2.2.
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