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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. Re:Is it called ad block plus? by Cito · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Adblock plus does not accept any money to exclude any sites.

    It uses the exact same blocklists every adblocking service uses, from adblocking at dd-wrt level router plugin to Alternative-DNS a free dns servers that block ads at the dns level:
    http://www.alternate-dns.com/

    the only thing adblock plus added was a checkbox that defaults to unchecked. But if you do check it the only ad it will allow is adsense. Yet noone checks the exlude.

    I have 7 blocklists in my adblock plug, from peter lowe's list to the "Adblock Detector blocker" list.

    with adblock detector blocker, you no longer get sites that say "We detected you are running adblock, blah blah blah"

    also by not allowing the detection of adblock you can now easily block ads on sites that have embedded ads in video like Hulu. :P

    There is also a greasemonkey script to hide and block the detection of adblocking plugins.

    Anti-Adblock killer: http://userscripts-mirror.org/...

    Adblock plus does not get paid to exclude any sites. that's a false statement as the code is open source. you can allow adsense if you want to support some dumbass youtuber begging for sheckels or just leave it off as it is by default.

    And never run just 1 blocklist, get the ad blocking list, then get the peter lowe malware, social media like, plus, share, all social media embeds. And block statistic gathering like Statcounter and Alexia from measuring your visits.

  2. Reading TFA by darkain · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I went and actually read TFA. It seems all they've done is create a bastardized version of a less efficient SPDY/HTTP2 protocol fetching system. Essentially, they're trying to solve a problem that is already solved, but the existing solution is already faster, more efficient, and more well thought out in general.