‘No more tears: Science boosts web browser speed by 34%’ – ‘Mashable’
Karissa Bell says, “Scientists think they pwned your browser experience.
We live online and literally spend hours a day in web browsers, and a good chunk of that precious time is spent waiting for pages to finish loading. Since the dawn of the consumer Internet in the mid 1990s every new browser has come with promises of faster page loads. But as pages grew more complex and interactive, most browser companies didn’t start to deliver on those promises until they fully rewrote most of their browser engines in the mid-ought’s.
Even so, they’ve kind of hit a ceiling, and we’re still staring at our computers, waiting for ESPN.com to just load already.
Now scientists at MIT and Harvard have come up with a pair of technologies they claim can speed browser page loads on everyday web browsers by more than 30%. The researchers announced their findings in a paper, Polaris: Faster Page Loads Using Fine-grained Dependency Tracking, which will be presented at the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 16) on March 16”.
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