Google loves the people of the Internet and developers, and in order to help them access their websites faster, the company has unveiled Page Speed. This is the main reason why Google loads that fast as it helps them reducing the time necessary to load and display a web page or a picture on a website.

We know that Google features only minimalist designs and huge server farms, but you know that a server doesn’t run well if it’s not optimized well therefore Google has developed internally a speed tool which made their websites to load and display faster. Now that Google made Page Speed open source, developers can see what is “wrong” with their websites and optimize them.

Google Page Speed is a Firefox plugin which can be integrated with Firebug, and the now open-sourced tool can also identify problems with Javascript and CSS. Well, this is very similar to what Yahoo has to offer as most of you probably remember the YSlow tool that can also be integrated into Firefox.

Google “hopes” that developers will give Page Speed a try, and we will try to compile a comparison between YSlow and Google’s tool.

You can read more about Google Page Speed here.

You can read the Google Page Speed Web performance best practices here.