Page Speed Automatic is a complementary optimization service to Cotendo's existing Dynamic Site Acceleration service (shown above).
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Content delivery network and value-added site acceleration services provider Cotendo (www.cotendo.com) has deployed Page Speed Automatic, a new code optimization service which uses the the open-source project mod_pagespeed optimization engine developed at Google (www.google.com).
According to Cotendo’s Wednesday announcement, the new service implements a comprehensive set of best practices designed to automatically minimize page load time and enhance the performance of code passing through a CDN.
Cotendo said it worked closely with Google to enhance the mod_pagespeed code to help address the challenges posed by massively scaled content delivery environments and deployment to multiple customers and various configurations specific to a service environment.
“Speed is key for each product we develop,” Google engineering director Arvind Jain said in a statement. “We worked with Cotendo to adapt mod_pagespeed to their application platform, and they moved rapidly from concept to code to product, demonstrating an impressive speed-up in their customers’ site performance.”
Unlike systems or methods that attempt to optimize site code during development or deployment to a Web server, Mod_pagespeed simply plugs into Apache, the most widely used web server, as an on-the-fly HTML code optimizer.
This new service from Cotendo automatically optimizes code of HTML pages as they enter the CDN to provide immediate acceleration benefits to Web application and page delivery. The new Cotendo service will also optimize caching, and reduce the number of data requests and the payload size of pages.
When rendered within its network, Cotendo reports that these code modifications, in aggregate, can reduce image size by 20 to 30 percent and page load time by as much as 50 percent on top of the acceleration already achieved by Cotendo’s existing site acceleration services.
“We are thrilled to be working with Google to deploy and commercialize an innovative service that makes the web faster,” Cotendo chief executive officer Ronni Zehavi said in a statement. “We believe that smarter technology, like our performance application platform, will play an important role in advancing the base set of capabilities required to support the best ideas of our partners and customers.”
Cotendo and Google jointly presented this new technology for the first time Wednesday at ApacheCon 2010 in Atlanta.
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