Chrome, increases the speed of loading pages due to Brotli
Announced a few months ago, the compression algorithm Brotli could be introduced in the next stable version of Chrome. At the moment, you can try in its preliminary implementation through the Canary channel.
The compression algorithm of pages known as Brotli may soon be promoted with the integration of Google Chrome. The company had announced last September, promising more efficiency than the current Zopfli, and now revealed that he has begun to schedule the release on his own browser. Brotli will save up to 25% of consumption data, resulting consequently, in a time of slightly lower page loading.
It is an open-source algorithm designed with the sole purpose of making more efficient loading of web pages. Brotli was described last September as a ” lossless format that compresses data using a combination LZ77 algorithm and Huffman code, with an efficiency comparable to that of the best generic compression systems currently available. ” According to benchmarks run by Google itself, Brotli should also be faster than Deflate in its best implementation.
The compression algorithm is now passed to the ” Intent to Ship “, although there were no words spoken about the release timing. Anyone wishing to get an idea of the benefits that will bring the use of Brotli experience of browsing with Chrome can try the latest browser version published on the Canary channel, what the company uses to test an experimental feature. The algorithm is not enabled by default, which suggests that its implementation in the stable version is still far from being introduced.
To activate Brotli of Chrome Canary is necessary to enter in the address bar the string ” chrome://flags#enable-Brotli ” excluding the quotes. On the specific, Group now writes some examples with which to test the compression algorithm, although we believe that the differences may not be as incisive in daily use. Google’s idea is that Brotli is exploited on various browsers and services. However, this is clearly an industry technology for the mobile world, where even the most insignificant savings is always appreciated and welcome.
