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Chrome is about to get a lot faster with new compression
algorithm
BY KELLEN BECK
JAN 20, 2016
The speed of your Chrome browser is about to go up. That's thanks to Google rollingout a new data-compression algorithm, which will speed up your web browsing byreducing file sizes.
Google employee Ilya Grigorik announced on Google+ that the Brotli compressionalgorithm will be coming soon to Chrome. Brotli is currently in beta, and advancedChrome Canary users can enable it now through the chrome://flags menu in.
Following Google's previous data-compression algorithm, Zopfli, Brotli is named afterSwiss baked goods, meaning "small bread."
SEE ALSO: The 10 Chrome extensions you need most
The open-source algorithm was first announced in September last year, and Googlesoftware engineer Zoltán Szabadka wrote that the team wants to see Brotli used acrossmore than just Chrome.
"We hope that this format will be supported by major browsers in the near future, asthe smaller compressed size would give additional benefits to mobile users, such aslower data transfer fees and reduced battery use," he wrote.
According to a study released by Google, Brotli has the top compression anddecompression speeds and smallest sizes in most cases compared to othercompression algorithms. Brotli compresses to sizes 17-25% smaller than other methodsand uses less processing and battery power to do so. Compared to Google's previouscompression algorithm, Zopfli, Brotli gets 20-26% higher compression ratios.Compression ratios look at uncompressed size over compressed size, so a higher ratiomeans smaller overall size.
"The smaller compressed size allows for better space utilization and faster page loads,"Szabadka wrote.
Expect to see faster load times in Chrome in the near future, and perhaps in otherbrowsers that pick up the open-source algorithm. If you want to check it out yourself,the code is available on GitHub.
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