Google must be stopped! Is taking advantage of its monopoly to... to... well, do good. At least from their point of view. Some sites are badly coded, not even try to be optimized, and speeding them up probably won't require a big investment, while will improve the experience for the visitors.

But in the other hand, some sites by goals, general idea, location or popularity end being slow from google's point of view and gets punished, potentially being the authoritative in some topic. Could be mitigated a bit if the "speed" they are measuring is the kind of metric and recommendations that do page speed, yslow and some of their other suggested tools do, that in most part arent about how fast your server side scripts run or how much bandwidth your server have, but usually cheap to follow directives like compressing output, optimizing images or where you include your javascripts/css in the html.