Google Chrome users will get faster Web access soon through the Brotli open source compression algorithm, which has been rolled out to the M49 release of Chrome. That’s in Canary — which is designed for devs — so it’s not clear when Brotli will surface in the Chrome browser. Brotli, which was introduced in September, gives 20 to 26 percent higher compression ratios over Google’s 2-year-old Zopfli algorithm and provides faster page loads, the company said.
Nice to see most browsers will support this compression. I do think more and more people are now beginning to think about data use. Even if only to address web traffic reduction, this will help.
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Chrome Browser to Blaze With Brotli
Posted by: Richard Adhikari January 21, 2016 10:55 AMGoogle Chrome users will get faster Web access soon through the Brotli open source compression algorithm, which has been rolled out to the M49 release of Chrome. That’s in Canary — which is designed for devs — so it’s not clear when Brotli will surface in the Chrome browser. Brotli, which was introduced in September, gives 20 to 26 percent higher compression ratios over Google’s 2-year-old Zopfli algorithm and provides faster page loads, the company said.