Google offers to rewrite web to make it faster

[Simon]

Google is offering to speed up websites by rewriting them and serving them via its own content delivery network.

The Page Speed Service could speed load times by 25% to 60%, Google said.

"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," said Ram Ramani, engineering manager, in a post on the Google blog.

"Your users will continue to access your site just as they did before, only with faster load times," he explained. "Now you don't have to worry about concatenating CSS, compressing images, caching, gzipping resources or other web performance best practices."

Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/enterprise/368953/google-offers-to-rewrite-web-to-make-it-faster

[Technical Ben]

So more of the same old but with more buzz words? So this is either some sort of compressions (browsers do this already with stuff like low image quality etc) or Akima style local servers?
Yawn.

[zappaDPJ]

It's probably a valid service in terms of optimisation. In my experience very few web masters really understand how to deliver an optimised end result but I for one will keep my content well away from Google's servers.

[Rik]

World domination springs to mind.

[pctech]

Price war between Akamai and Google or possible Google acquisition of Akamai?