http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/enterprise/ ... -it-faster

Argos and Play please take note you feckin' retards

Also to make it easier to collect data on users?

Of course, but those two could actually cost Google money, 'We just can't figure out what sort of backward-ass systems they're using'...

In some respects a faster more secure internet would be a good thing. Though it would need to be opened up to stop abuse by Google who could use such information to maintain its dominance.

On 3 sites we have recently finished at work, 2 I worked as sole dev on and one I didn't have any hands on development time....

Site with no involvement on (mainly static work, not much in the way of images)
Page Load Time 6.079s 4.090s -1.989s (32.7%)
Repeat View Page Load Time 3.354s 2.276s -1.078s (32.1%)

Site 1 I worked on, Asp.net webforms, image heavy for a design company with no compression on the images (text could possibly have been compressed...)
Page Load Time 5.287s 5.067s -0.220s (4.2%)
Repeat View Page Load Time 4.159s 3.128s -1.031s (24.8%)

Site 2 I worked on, Asp.net MVC3, still on the demo server, no caching or any other performance enhancements until other niggles are worked out
Page Load Time 2.498s 1.967s -0.531s (21.3%)
Repeat View Page Load Time 2.104s 1.075s -1.029s (48.9%)


From looking at the performance of what has actually been done... all they have done is compress the images, gzip text and cache a lot more of the non dynamic data (which on a lot of our sites is very few and far between, could set up a better cache dependency though)