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@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ the progress of the project:
 
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-The goal of ngx_pagespeed is to speed up your site and reduce page load time by
-automatically applying web performance best practices to pages and associated
-assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) without requiring that you modify your existing
-content or workflow. Features include:
+ngx_pagespeed speeds up your site and reduces page load time by automatically
+applying web performance best practices to pages and associated assets (CSS,
+JavaScript, images) without requiring you to modify your existing content or
+workflow. Features include:
 
 - Image optimization: stripping meta-data, dynamic resizing, recompression
 - CSS & JavaScript minification, concatenation, inlining, and outlining