Friday, 22 January 2016

Google Chrome Gets Big Speed Boost With Brotli

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Google Chrome Gets Big Speed Boost With Brotli

Alphabet Inc. has come up with a data compression algorithm, named as Brotli, which will assist in loading websites quickly. In the times to come, Google Chrome users are likely to embrace a boost in performance since the company to boost the loading time has derived a new technology.

The search engine giant’s latest compression algorithm is expected soon. Once the update is released for the next version of Chrome, the feature will pave its way to the masses. Ilya Grigorik, the Web performance engineer posted on Google+ recently. Initially, the company unveiled this service in September. However, they did not provide any details regarding the availability of it then.

According to the statistics generated by the company, the service will be 20 to 26% better than the present compression algorithm used. Currently Zopfli is used for this purpose; the small compression size will make it easier for the pages to load faster. Those who use Google Chrome on mobile devices will get access to better features such as minimal battery usage and low data transfer fees.

Data compression is the mechanism of minimizing data, which makes it use less space with convenience in transferring. Data tends to be compressed more densely through this manner. It makes it easier for the Internet to travel fast with the use of minimal resources. At this point of time, the platform by the company is open sourced thus other tech giants can amalgamate the algorithm for other browsers.

“We hope that this format will be supported by major browsers in the near future,” a software engineer belonging to the compression team of Google, Zoltan Szabadka, mentioned in September. Before this Mr. Patrick McManus, the head at Mozilla claimed that the organization would soon offer support for Brotli. However, it is quite unclear at this point of time when it would come up with this update.

It is evident now that the company is now devoted to make the waiting process for websites relatively easier. It will make websites loading faster and user-friendly. The tech behemoth also came up with a new venture known as Accelerated Mobile Pages, which is a unique way of it to offer mobile search results faster and enables users to load them quickly.

Hence, this great move by Google attracts the masses that are fed up with spending time and staring at a boring screen taking ages to load.


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