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Google's new algorithm will help Chrome load web pages a lot faster

By Koh Wanzi - on 21 Jan 2016, 10:10am

Google's new algorithm will help Chrome load web pages a lot faster

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Google Chrome may be something of a memory hog, but it's still a fairly speedy browser that works pretty well. But things are about to get better thanks to a new compression algorithm called Brotli, which Google first introduced last September.

Brotli will enable Chrome to compress data up to 26% more than the current Zopfli compression engine, which amounts to quite a significant improvement. Google says that Brotli is an entirely new data format, and the smaller compressed size allows for better space utilization and faster page loads. More importantly, it would benefit mobile users in particular as they can supposedly expect lower data transfer fees and reduced battery use.

Google web performance engineer Ilya Grigorik has said that Brotli is already waiting in the wings, so we may reasonably expect to see shorter loading times in the next version of Chrome. The benefits won't just be limited to Chrome users though, and Firefox will also be adopting Brotli in Firefox 44, to be released later this month.

Source: Ilya Grigorik via The Verge

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