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# Optimize your website



 Watching file sizes and following coding standards are only one simple way to optimize your website. Proper HTML will ensure you page is processed as smoothly as possible, but does not mean a major speed boost. When the dust settles from developing a new website, I turn to [Google's PageSpeed](http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/ "Google PageSpeed") for the round up of last minute tweaks. PageSpeed alerts you to multiple tips and tricks to help edge off a few milliseconds of your page load - which has become crucial.![PageSpeed helps optimize your site by analyzing it's load process.](http://glamanate.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/page_speed_analyzing.png "PageSpeed to optimize your site")Just like other validators, there is a webpage that allows you to plug-in your page's URL and[ let it do some crunching](https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights "PageSpeed Online Insight"). Google also released PageSpeed as an extension for it's Chrome's Developer Tools and extends the FireBug extension for FireFox. Your results are broken down into three categories: High, Medium, and Low priority. Each suggestion will provide a description of what can be optimized and how. For example, if you do not have any kind of compression running, it'll analyze how much data transfer you could save with it, the same with minifying your CSS, etc. Want something more? Google also provides an Apache module, called [mod\_pagespeed](https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/mod "mod_pagespeed for Apache"). A lot of those small tweaks can be handled automatically for you by the module, saving you time and effort.   

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