In its continual quest to have websites load faster, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has unveiled an online Page Speed Service that the company says helps accelerate loading. Signing up is as simple as pointing a site's DNS entry to Google--with no special tweaking or configuration to your website required.

In a blog post on the official Google Code blog, Engineering Manager Ram Ramani describes how the service work: "Page Speed Service fetches content from your servers, rewrites your pages by applying web performance best practices, and serves them to end users via Google's servers across the globe." Ramani claims speed improvements of 25 percent to 60 percent, achieved by methods such as concatenating of CSS files, compressing of images and webpages and caching on Google's servers.

The service is currently being offered free of charge to a limited set of webmasters, while details of its pricing will be made available at a later date--pricing will be "competitive." Interested parties can indicate their interest using this form, while various tests to see how the Page Speed Service can optimize your site can be performed here.

For more:
- check out this blog at the Google Code blog
- check out this article at InformationWeek
- check out this article at TechCrunch

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