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Google Ends Page Speed Service
- michaelbuckbee 11y agoPoint of clarification - this isn't the Page Speed testing, but their "optimizing proxy" that you'd route your site through (like Cloudflare).
- daok 11y agoOne more product that Google retires. I like Gmail, Google, etc but the way Google deprecate their product start to concern me.
- skj 11y agoMight have something to do with another comment in this thread... > I didn't even realize they offered this - CloudFlare really seems to dominate the narrative in this area. Is this something you used? Does its turndown affect you? anyone?
- buren 11y agoI've used CloudFlare in a number of projects, usually with great results. Though occasionally they have problems, but that's usually a local issue with one of their data centers. One thing that would be awesome is if you could add a Google Analytics tracking code, so you could track how often their error page is shown.
- 91bananas 11y agoGmail and "Google" aren't going anywhere.
- seanp2k2 11y agoNo, but any company doing something interesting which they acquire can expect to have their product discontinued in a couple of years max.
- wahsd 11y agoI am guessing you don't mean that Gmail hasn't really progressed in many years now. Sure, they've bolted on features and functionality, but they have also probably intentionally delayed or been distracted from adding real value because e.g., it would have competed or distracted from other projects like G+ by, e.g., improving the contacts view, which is really rather unusable. Another issue that bothers the hell out of me is that with all the scanning of emails they do they can't figure out a probably date and time from emails that were turned into events, which mention a date and time in the body or subject. Something I also find rather annoying is that you can't filter messages only to me from a specific sender but without any other recipients.
- derefr 11y agoGmail progressed; it progressed so far people probably wouldn't like it if it was changed out from under them (like with New Coke) so they called the progression Inbox instead.
- Kiro 11y agoHonest question: besides Google Reader, what has Google terminated that people actually used?
- missblit 11y agoGoogle Code Search RIP :-(
- gtk40 11y agoWeb apps that I used on a daily basis: Notebook (very simple and there are others, but none have been as good IMO), Code Search, [Reader], iGoogle, SMS (although they killed it just before I got a smartphone. I would still use it for when I don't have data though). Other sites that I used from time to time and miss: Meebo (mainly before Google purchase, but continued to use sometimes), Knol (I contributed to it and thought it was great), Video (I preferred the interface to YT and uploaded stuff to it until I no longer could), Answers (love reading it, great idea)
- pixelbath 11y agoFrom personal experience: Search API: used to be able to submit keywords and get XML results back, now it's AJAX-only and spits out formatted HTML, only 10 results, and different from real search results. Mostly useful for people involved in SEO. No big loss without it, but just means you have to scrape SERPs instead of getting them nicely bundled up. Desktop: I used it for a while, then found Everything (http://www.voidtools.com/ http://www.voidtools.com/) which is far faster and more responsive. Bookmarks: Edit: It is still there. Health: I didn't use this directly, but many of us in the healthcare industry were looking to see how Google could shake things up. Apparently, PHI is hard and Google discontinued their service. Voice: It hasn't been discontinued yet, but I feel certain this will be the next big product to go. The service (and app) hasn't been updated in years, there is no clear monetization strategy aside from international VOIP calling (which other applications do better), and the messaging portion is mostly covered by cellular carriers as "visual voicemail" with the widespread use of smartphones.
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- malchow 11y agoI was one of the first users of this product, and worked with Rahul Bainsal and others quite a bit on it. It was a very powerful product diligently worked upon by a talented team. One can only hope they'll get something juicy to work on now! Despite the deprecation, the PSS team is very much worthy of a salute.
- mhoad 11y agoI semi actively follow this space and had no idea that this service was ever out of private beta. I'd have put my clients on it almost immediately had I of known. What a shame.
- mrj 11y agoIt wasn't worth the additional latency in most cases, so few people used it.
- arohner 11y agoI wasn't planning on announcing yet, but this seems like a good opportunity. I'm working on a service that does real-time monitoring of your website performance, as measured by your actual users, on their browser. If that sounds interesting, my email is in my profile.
- jgrahamc 11y agoLike New Relic?
- arohner 11y agoSimilar, yes. I have beta users who hated New Relic's server-side setup. I'm also treating this more as a production monitoring tool, rather than a dev tool.
- josephmx 11y agoThis is already included in Analytics
- arohner 11y agoPeople pay good money for Mixpanel and Kissmetrics, even though Google Analytics exists. I find GA's UI to be absolutely terrible. I plan on having better UI, more detailed performance breakdown, and alerts / monitoring.
- toephu2 11y agoI actually find GA's UI pretty good. Much better than Flurry analytics for example.
- sergiotapia 11y agosend me an email sergiotapia@outlook.com
- foolinaround 11y agoNot sure if I should be using Google for anything except search ( pretty much most of my eggs are in the google basket )
- jccooper 11y agoCertainly anything that's not a core Google product you should think hard about using. I got burned when they shut down Checkout. They gave me six months notice on that, which was just barely enough to replace shopping cart, order management, and payment processing. The first two I now have in house, so no one can turn them off. At least this one's fairly easy to fix, but I think there will be plenty of people unpleasantly surprised on 3 Aug.
- ocfx 11y agoIt wasn't a very good measure of page speed anyways. For example the Microsoft dev site scores 83/100 and loads faster than any site I've ever seen before.
- cbr 11y agoIt sounds like you're talking about PageSpeed Insights? [1] That's not deprecated. This announcement is about PageSpeed Service, the Google-hosted optimizing proxy. [1] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
- mhoad 11y agoYou're talking about a different service as an FYI. What you are referring to is Page Speed insights service which for the record is actually pretty amazing.
- captainhcg 11y agoThis was an amazing product to me one year ago. I used it as CDN for my blog hosted Amazon EC2; it speeded up the visits a lot across the world. However, I stopped using it last year since China blocked all Google service while my blog is mostly for Chinese readers. Though the proxy/cdn service is shutting down, the Pagespeed Module of Apache/Nginx is awesome, which is what I am using right now.
- josephmx 11y agoIt seems to be implied that this is the same team as Mod_Pagespeed? Hopefully that won't get discontinued as well, it's pretty valuable
- cbr 11y agoWe're not planning to deprecate mod_pagespeed; it's still under active development.
- cbr 11y agoHoping to clear up some confusion: there are three things under the PageSpeed name. * PageSpeed Insights: tells you how to make your website faster and gives you a score. * PageSpeed Modules (mod_pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed): open source web server plugins that rewrite your site to load faster. * PageSpeed Service: Google-hosted proxy version of the PageSpeed Modules. We're only deprecating PageSpeed Service. (I'm the TL for the open source modules.)
- jgrall 11y agoThanks for the clarification. I use PageSpeed via a couple of App Engine apps that have it enabled directly from App Engine's admin dashboard. I never had to change any DNS settings to get it to work. Does this shutdown also mean that PageSpeed will no longer be offered for App Engine apps? Do I need to take any action to avoid a service interruption for my users?
- cbr 11y agoYes, App Engine support is also deprecated: If you are using PageSpeed integration on Google App Engine, it will continue to function until 1st December 2015, after which PageSpeed optimizations will no-longer be applied to your app. No action is required on the part of App Engine users; after this date apps will continue to operate, except without the benefit of the PageSpeed optimizations. App Engine users only need to take action if they have something on their site that depends on PageSpeed, which is very uncommon.
- rey12rey 11y agoI didn't have to worry at all about trying to use webassets in realtime. That's just one of the numerous optimisations I'll sorely miss
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- cbr 11y ago"Deprecated": we're going to stop supporting this, please move to something else. "Turned Down": this service will be turned off on 8/3, sites that haven't moved away by then will stop working.
- ramon 11y agoIf Google shuts down Insights I will do just like Achmed ("I'll kill you!") :)
- talles 11y agoNot directly related to the end of the service but > The Google Developers website now saves the pages you visit when you are logged into Google. You can quickly access them via the history icon at the top of the site. What? That's my web browser responsibility...
- mdekkers 11y agoThis is why we don't rely on Google for anything in production, or anything that is actually important to us.