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Wednesday, December 02, 2009
We've just launched Site Performance, an experimental feature in Webmaster Tools that shows you
information about the speed of your site and suggestions for making it faster.
Now we bring data and statistics specifically applicable to your site. On Site Performance, you'll
find how fast your pages load, how they've fared over time, how your site's load time compares to
that of other sites, examples of specific pages and their actual page load times, andPage Speedsuggestions that can help reduce user-perceived latency. Our goal is to bring you specific and
actionable speed information backed by data, so stay tuned for more of this in the future.
The load time data is derived from aggregated information sent by users of your site who have
installed the Google Toolbar and opted-in to itsenhanced features.
We only show the performance charts and tables when there's enough data, so not all of them may
be shown if your site has little traffic. The data currently represents a global average; a
specific user may experience your site faster or slower than the average depending on their
location and network conditions.
This is aLabsproduct that is still in development. We hope you find it useful. Please let us know your
feedback through theWebmaster Tools Forum.
Update on 12/04/2009:Our team just reconvened to provide you more information on this
feature. Check outJohnMu'slatest post onSite Performance!
Posted by Sreeram Ramachandran, Software Engineer and Arvind Jain, Director, Faster Web program
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