New version of Chrome browser promises blazing fast reload speeds on mobiles
Usually when someone reloads a web page, browsers will first check with the web server for any usable cached resources. Unfortunately, this results in hundreds of network requests per page provided to dozens of domains. While it might not be a problem on desktop, on mobile devices this could result in high latency and major performance issues.
Users typically reload either because a page is broken or the content seems stale. The existing reload behavior usually solves broken pages, but stale content is inefficiently addressed by a regular reload, especially on mobile. To improve the stale content use case, Chrome now has a simplified reload behavior to only validate the main resource and continue with a regular page load.
According to developers, the new version of Chrome is not just faster when reloading web pages, but it also consumes less bandwidth and power.
Since an image, in this case a video, is worth a thousand words, the team of developers released a video that shows how fast the new Chrome browser reloads web pages, as opposed to a previous iteration.
source: Chromium
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