Google Updates Mod_Pagespeed With Smarter Caching, Progressive JPEGs

Google wants the web to be as fast as possible and it's been working on a number of initiatives like SPDY, PageSpeed Tools, its hosted libraries and, of course, its Chrome browser. One tools that doesn't get quite as much press as projects like Chrome and SPDY is mod_pagespeed for the open-source Apache web server. Mod_pagespeed automatically implements a number of performance optimizations techniques that can help improve the loading times of the sites that implement it. Google has now launched version 1.2 of mod_pagespeed. This new version focuses on four features: improved caching for JavaScript libraries like jQuery and jQuery UI, pre-resolving DNS requests, the ability to proxy and optimize resources from trusted domains and core support for transcoding JPEG images to progressive.

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