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Before everyone goes rushing off to disable DNS prefetching, remember that DNS prefetching is generally a good thing that exists to make websites faster. And the faster your site is the more pageviews you can expect. Faster sites also have a lower bounce rate and better pagerank from Google.

Does Google take DNS prefetching into account when they measure the speed of a web site?

They get their timing data from the Google Toolbar, so yes.

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