Open source
We-Amp maintains open-source projects and contributes to third-party infrastructure used across the web performance ecosystem. Our product, mod_pagespeed 2.1, is open source under Apache-2.0 and builds directly on this work; We-Amp sells support.
Our projects
Maintained by We-Amp
Projects we actively develop and maintain.
mod_pagespeed & ngx_pagespeed
Originally developed at Google to automatically optimize web pages. Google moved the project to the Apache Incubator, where We-Amp's founder was a committer and release-managed its only Apache release, with over 360 pull requests across the codebase. After the podling retired, We-Amp continued active development of the module, which ships today as mod_pagespeed 2.1 with ports for nginx, Apache, and IIS.
Cyclone Cache
A C++23 cache library built from scratch for mod_pagespeed 2.1. Replaces the legacy cache subsystem with a lock-free design optimized for high-concurrency web servers. Shared across the mod_pagespeed 2.1 line.
Community
Contributions to third-party projects
Work contributed upstream to projects in the broader web infrastructure ecosystem. This track record also informs our consulting work.
Envoy Proxy & Nighthawk
We-Amp's founder is the emeritus maintainer of envoyproxy/nighthawk, the L7 performance characterization tool in the Envoy ecosystem — and the project's single largest contributor with over 300 pull requests. He also served as Envoy stable release manager (2021 Q4, 2022 Q1), backporting X.509 security fixes, contributed to Envoy core (build system, stats registration), and co-presented at EnvoyCon 2019 with Joshua Marantz (Google).
Apache Traffic Server
We-Amp's founder contributed major enhancements to the gzip compression plugin and added FastCGI support for Apache Traffic Server. We-Amp also built ats_pagespeed, a PageSpeed optimization plugin for ATS.
CNCF Service Mesh Performance
Contributor to the Service Mesh Performance (SMP) project at Layer5, part of the CNCF ecosystem. Focused on standardizing service mesh performance benchmarking and characterization.
Commercial
mod_pagespeed 2.1
Server-side web optimization: a native module for Apache, nginx and IIS, plus the optimizer worker — open source under the Apache License 2.0. mod_pagespeed 2.1 builds on the open-source foundations above and incorporates optimization libraries from the original mod_pagespeed project.
Related
Connected work
Background
About We-Amp B.V.
How the company and the open-source track record fit together.
Services
HTTP infrastructure consulting
The same domain expertise applied to client engagements.
Legacy product
IISpeed (deprecated)
IIS customers can transfer their license to mod_pagespeed 2.1 with native IIS support, at no cost.