<<We've just launched Site Performance, an experimental feature in Webmaster Tools that shows you information about the speed of your site and suggestions for making it faster.>>

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-fast-is-your-site.html

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My site is slow. Why? Because of Google Analytics and Google AdSense. Yeah!

Slow? What is the avarage load time then? I use Analytics, AdSense to and webmaster tools says "On average, pages in your site take 1.7 seconds to load (updated on Nov 30, 2009). This is faster than 73% of sites."

Give the new async Analytics script a try :-)

JohnMu: the times reported by Google Webmaster Tools are just for the HTML to be downloaded by Google's crawler. JavaScript calls to Analytics and AdSense aren't executed.

Very good suggestion...

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Roger, the crawl stats in Webmaster Tools are just for the downloading of the content, but the new Site Performance feature shows what users are actually seeing overall (time until the page is ready in the browser).

Grega, for these details we fetch the URLs with Googlebot, so if a server does not use gzip for Googlebot, we'll show that here. Apparently we don't serve gzipped JS-files to Googlebot. Some browsers – eg IE6 – can't handle gzipped embedded content (JS/CSS, etc) so it's good for servers to use gzip selectively.

Thanks JohnMu.

JohnMu A webmaster tools related question. Why does Google keep showing the homepage of a website under the 'Duplicate title tags'. For example Webmaster tools says this for "/" and "/index.html".

Not always it comes up but regularly it returns.

WebSonic, could it be that both URLs are getting indexed? Do you have a redirect set up for that? or perhaps use the rel=canonical? In general, while we're really good at recognizing those duplicates, it can sometimes happen that we index both versions (even if we don't show both of them to users in search results).

Thanks for replying! No I don't have a redirect set up for that. I know that it is possible but to avoid errors, loops etc. I don't have it. When searching I don't find both pages in Google but maybe the canonical would be a solution. On the other hand, can it do any harm like this?

There's no problem leaving it like this, it might show an unnecessary entry in Webmaster Tools from time to time, but it's generally not going to affect your site's crawling, indexing or ranking, no worries :-)

Thanks JohnMu!