A Tweak Saves Blogger 114 Years of Page Load Time per Week

Blogger, one of the most popular blog hosting platforms in the world. Back Blogger introduced a small but significant change that was aimed at making pages load faster. Now, Blogger team is releasing the initial results of the switch and the numbers are impressive, as Blogger notes that blog pages have seen a ten-percent decrease in load times. The result is very impressive.
Noah Fiedel, Blogger tech lead, announced. "Five weeks ago we rolled out Auto Pagination, a major milestone in our efforts to make Blogger faster for you and your readers. We are very happy to report a ten percent overall decrease in page loading latency across all Blogger blogs and a twenty-seven percent decrease on archive pages," "Just how significant is a ten percent latency reduction? It's not often that software engineers get to save lives, yet in just the past five weeks we’ve saved eight human lifetimes spent waiting for pages to load! Every week saves an additional: 1 Million Hours, 114 Years, 1.6 Human Lifetimes,".

The effects, as you can see, are huge but the change itself is actually quite subtle. Several weeks ago, Blogger started serving a variable number of blog posts per page depending on the size of the HTML file and the number of images on the page. Cluttered blogs now list fewer posts and lightweight ones, the other way around.

The change has had its detractors, but Blogger says that most of the sites impacted negatively were not 'really' blogs. In any case, this is just the first step and Blogger wants to introduce further changes to enhance page load times. The next feature heading for a revamp is the ability to embed third-party JavaScripts in the blogs, one of Blogger's most appealing options, but the developers aren't saying what the changes might be. 

According to blogger," If a ten percent improvement has such a major impact, what else can be done to speed up your blog? One area we’re looking at is third-party JavaScript. We remain one of the few blogging services to allow users unlimited ability to add JavaScript to their pages — but that flexibility comes at a cost. These JavaScript widgets often add several seconds to page loads — even on fast Internet connections. We’ll talk more about this in a future post; in the mean time, you can try out Google’s Page Speed to identify what might be causing a page to load slowly." 

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