When Google optimizes the elements it looks at images, JavaScript, and CSS. It alerts the user to which specific things are not optimized and suggests what should be done to them and what percentage of the file would be reduced by doing so.
When you click on the download link, Google will optimize the elements and create a zip file you can download that contains all the elements in it, each type in its own folder.
If your site has major optimization issues, you will need to run this in a few steps, correcting the issues as you go along, as Google will only include up to 10MB of optimized contents in each download.
This is a great addition to the page speed insights, especially for those who might not have the necessary knowledge of how they can reduce the size and bloat in some of these elements. I do stress again that you will want to back up all the files you are planning on changing with Google’s new optimized ones, that way you can upload the old version if something goes awry.
To use, simply go to the PageSpeed Insights Page in the Google Developers section (it isn’t in your Google Webmaster Tools account, if you are looking for it there, like I always seem to). Enter your URL, click the Analyze button and Google will check the page speed and recommend the changes you should make to speed up load time.
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