I get the following advice from Google page speed:

Suggestions for this page

The following resources have identical contents, but are served from different URLs. Serve these resources from a consistent URL to save 1 request(s) and 77.1KiB.

• http://www.irishnews.com/
• http://www.irishnews.com/index.aspx

I'm not sure how to fix this the default page is http://www.irishnews.com/index.aspx, anybody know what need to be done please advise.

thanks

thanks tom  - your points make sense and i've implymented them. would welcome any more advice re  this site.

all the best

Liam

Hi ,

I have a page with many news storeys on it.

Google craws the page but it picks up a more general url even though  I've embedded the  direct URL within anchor tags around the headline .

The snippet below got  linked by Google to http://www.irishnews.com/

Any idea how i can get Google to pick-up http://www.irishnews.com/news.aspx?storyId=1180708 would be very welcome

• 

  News

  Peter Quinn: Family made scapegoats of financial crisis

  THE Quinn family have been made scapegoats of the financial crisis surrounding the former Anglo Irish Bank, tycoon Sean Quinn's brother Peter claimed yesterday.Peter Quinn, a former president of the GAA, said hi read more»

I have provided a site maps for google but although it craws my site www.irishnews.com at 6:45AM the details in the site map are not seen on google for a few days  -  any ideas how to get this feature working better would be great.

example

<url><loc>http://www.irishnews.com/news.aspx?storyId=1126126</loc>
<priority>1</priority>
<lastmod>2012-01-23</lastmod>
<changefreq>never</changefreq></url>

thanks