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Google Chrome 27 Is Out: 5% Faster Page Loads

Posted by Soulskill on from the still-winning-the-version-race-against-firefox dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google on Tuesday released Chrome version 27 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new version features a big boost to page loads (now 5 percent faster on average) as well as significant updates for developers. The speed improvement is thanks to the introduction of 'smarter behind-the-scenes resource scheduling,' according to Google. Starting with this release, the scheduler more aggressively uses an idle connection and demotes the priority of preloaded resources so that they don’t interfere with critical assets."

2 of 195 comments (clear)

  1. Ridiculous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That version number inflation sucks hard. Considering the evolution since the beginning or Chrome, this should be version 1.26 not 27.

  2. 5% == meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ancient rule of thumb: Anything performance improvement below 10% is not perceptible.