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MIT Creates Algorithm That Speeds Up Page Load Time By 34% (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the time-is-money dept.

An anonymous reader writes: MIT researchers have created an algorithm that analyzes web pages and creates dependency graphs for all network resources that need to be loaded (CSS, JS, images, etc.). The algorithm, called Polaris, will be presented this week at the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation conference, and is said to be able to cut down page load times by 34%, on average. The larger and more resources a web page contains, the better the algorithm's efficiency gets -- which should be useful on today's JavaScript-heavy sites.

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  1. Is it called ad block plus? by jimbob6 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have something kinda like that its called No Script.

    1. Re:Is it called ad block plus? by cheater512 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The big difference being nothing working.

  2. Fix the sites first by markdavis · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They would all load a lot freaking faster if they would stop designing them with multiple, stupid, scrolling, 20 megapixel background images and dozens of megabytes of irritating javascript "special effects". Just saying.

    1. Re:Fix the sites first by The-Ixian · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Yeah exactly.

      Right here on /. NoScript blocks 7 domains out of 9 and the site looks and loads fine.

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  3. It's called AdBlocker by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >> Algorithm That Speeds Up Page Load Time By 34%

    It's called AdBlocker

  4. cut page load times by 90% instantly by ihtoit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    disable javascript.

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  5. no, 51% more ads! by oneiros27 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You forget -- those ads would be 34% faster, too ... so you could get 51% more ads in the same time it took to serve the original bloated page.

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  6. You know what would speed web page loading? by smooth+wombat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not having 14 scripts be needed to post a comment, not having 8 other scripts clogging the pipes for one advertisement, 6 scripts for tracking you, and multiple other scripts for whatever reason.

    Nor having a giant, moving graphic as the base part of your page which can't be turned off, menus which bounce up or down when you hover your mouse over them, or needing to have the latest and greatest browser so you don't miss out on the latest and greatest "features" of a site.

    But no, finding an algorithm to speed web page loading is what we should concentrate on.

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  7. Re:It's Needed by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We are now only discovering the terrible price of web standardisation and brower stability.

    Web design was a lot simpler when the lowest common speed was a 56K dial-up. Now that everyone is connected to the Internet with a fire hose on the last mile, most web designers don't even stop to optimize their pages.

  8. Re:Now the next step by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now, the next logical step is to have this algorithm analyze the actual scripts and figure out a way to convince the various malwares that they've been loaded satisfactorily even though they haven't. That way you could avoid downloading almost 99% of modern web pages.

    I run the NoScript extension, so I already get all of those benefits without any need for fancy page analysis.