Google added to Google Webmaster Tools in "Labs>Site performance" information about pages load time and presents to webmasters the Page Speed tool that gives detailed information and guidelines on improving page performance. The official Google blog article How fast is your site explains the site performance metric. Information on how to install and use Page Speed is at Using Page Speed and there is a fantastic collection of guidelines at Web Performance Best Practices.
December 3, 2009
Google adds thumbnail page previews to search results
Google added snapshot thumbnail page previews in search results, at "Show options>Standard results". This is a great feature for people using search results and also for webmasters working on improving the way content of their pages are viewed by Googlebot. The thumbnail previews show at a quick glance to webmasters which parts of a page are not visible to Googlebot for various reasons, for example embedded images blocked by the robots.txt file or JavaScript components of a page.
Another new feature in "Show options>Standard results" of Google search results is ‘Images from the page’ that shows a selection of thumbnail images embedded in a page.
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