Google Wants to Make The Web Faster

In a post on Google’s Chromium Blog today, Google shared with everyone its new project to try to  make the web faster. The project is called SPDY [pronounced 'speedy'], and it’s basically a new protocol to transport content on the Internet. It’s important to note that SPDY will not be replacing the HTTP protocol as some people are assuming. SPDY will actually optimize HTTP to make deliveries up to 2x faster.

Google has actually already tested SPDY in a lab with great the results. According to Google, when 25 top websites were downloaded on a simulated home network using the SPDY protocol, pages loaded up 55% faster. Since SPDY is still in its infancy and it was tested under the best conditions possible, results in a real household could turn out either a bit faster or slower.

Google is confident that SPDY is stable enough to share it with the world, so they’ve released the documentation and the most up-to-date code for anyone brave enough to give it a try. Google is hoping to get some feedback.