Google's new algorithm will make Chrome run much faster
Google's new algorithm will make Chrome run much faster
A new compression algorithm called Brotli
By Micah Singleton on January 20, 2016 09:49 am
Chrome is about to load web pages a lot faster than
you've experienced up until now. Thanks to a new compression algorithm called
Brotli, which Google introduced last September, Chrome will be able to compress
data up to 26 percent more than its existing compression engine, Zopfli, which
is an impressive jump.
According to Google's web performance engineer Ilya
Grigorik, Brotli is ready to roll out, so Chrome users should expect to see a
bump in load times once the next version of Chrome is released. Google also
says Brotli will help mobile Chrome users experience "lower data transfer
fees and reduced battery use." The company is hailing Brotli as "a
new data format" that Google hopes will be adopted by other web browsers
in the near future, with Firefox seemingly next in line to adopt it. But for
now, expect to notice your web pages loading a bit faster in the coming weeks.
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