Tag Archives: Google

Test Drive of the Google Hosted Ajax Libraries

The recently announced Google Ajax Libraries API caught our attention because it offers some significant performance improvements if you use a popular Javascript library (e.g. JQuery, prototype, script_aculo_us, MooTools or dojo)  on your site. You can now reference these libraries at Google rather than having to host your own copy. The benefits of this approach are:

The libraries […]

Google uses HttpWatch to Speed Up Gmail

There’s a post over on the Gmail blog by Wiltse Carpenter, the Tech Lead for Gmail Performance, about how they used HttpWatch and other tools to speed up the login for Gmail.
Here’s what they said about HttpWatch:
“The Httpwatch plug-in for Internet Explorer was one that proved easy to use and provided us with most of the […]

Why is Google so Fast?

It’s no coincidence that the most successful search engine on the planet is also the fastest to return results. Here are some time charts from HttpWatch for Google and its two closest competitors; Yahoo and Live.com:
Google.com returns its results page in 0.155 seconds:

Live.com returns its results page in 0.619 seconds:

Yahoo returns its results page in […]