Google SPDY aims to make web faster

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Google SPDY aims to make web faster

By Paul Ridden

15:00 November 16, 2009 PST

Loading pages from the Internet into browsers or accessing your favorite applications may seem pretty fast now, but the folks at Google think it could be a lot faster. Designed specifically for minimizing latency, the new SPDY protocol currently undergoing testing is proving to be an awful lot faster than more familiar HTTP and will shortly break out of the lab and head for the real-world.

Chromium is the open source code on which Google's browser, Chrome, is based. Not content with developing a fast browser though, the folks behind Chromium are now looking at the way browsers and servers communicate with the aim of speeding things up a bit.

HTTP became a web standard in 1996 and has since been the transfer protocol of choice for the vast majority of surfers around the world. Developers at Google have come up with SPDY (pronounced SpeeDY), an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web. Using Google Chrome with SPDY support, they have undertaken a limited test in lab conditions and noted significant improvements in download speeds.

Connecting to and loading up the top 25 websites enjoyed a 55 percent speed increase and while the team recognizes that there is still some way to go, initial results are encouraging. SPDY now needs real-world testing and the developers are asking for the active participation, feedback and assistance of the web community.

Netizens interested in helping can view the documentation and code before getting involved in the development via a special discussion group.

The video below shows the reasoning behind wanting to make the web faster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWWBnJEsUtU&feature=player_embedded

 

[chorut]

Why do you waste your time posting this here? You think any of the forumers here are competent enough even to understand what the post means? This is a forum full of failures in life. Wake up leh.

 

[whorejinx]

Why do you waste your time posting this here? You think any of the forumers here are competent enough even to understand what the post means? This is a forum full of failures in life. Wake up leh.

You had just spoken for yourself. Wake up moron!

 

[SeeFartLoong]

For most of the users in not just SG speed bottle-neck is their ISPs' not delivering as much bandwidth as they had claimed to be supplying and which users had paid for - if not OVERLY paid for.

You usually get just a fraction of your subscribed speed, seldom will you find it reach full, usually just less than half of what you had paid for.

This is not something that a new protocol can fix unfortunately.

If our ISPs lived up to their promises and delivered full bandwidth, even with good old HTTP protocol, we can be very happy downloading.

In particular I wish to point out that SG ISPs delibrately block and drop the downloading speed targeting P2P downloading. It is slowest in a list of Asian countries including many 3rd world. For huge download it is bit-torents aka P2P protocol that is really the most efficient technically. The SG ISPs are blocking these aribitarily, and they do indeed spent time and manpower and costly equipment to delibrately slow us down while they should be doing the reversed.

All I can say is KNNCCB to IDA.