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Chrome Now Reloads Pages 28% Faster (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on from the faster-browsing dept.

Google has announced that it has worked with Facebook and Mozilla to make page reloads in Chrome for desktop and mobile significantly faster. According to Google's data, reloading sites with the latest version of Chrome should now be about 28 percent faster. From a report: Typically, when you reload a page, the browser ends up making hundreds of network requests just to see if the images and other resources it cached the first time you went to a site are still valid. As Google engineer Takashi Toyoshima notes in today's announcement, users typically reload pages because they either look broken or because the content looks like it should have been updated (think old-school live blogs). He argues that when browser developers first added this feature, it was mostly because broken pages were common. Today, users mostly reload pages because the content of a site seems stale.

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  1. Umm, no... usually the page is broken. by zephvark · · Score: 3, Informative

    I reload pages because they are broken, generally due to an excess of advertising. Yes, I could filter out advertising but, I often get paid for having it there. Not that I look at it.

  2. Not all pages by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Chrome now reloads Facebook pages up to 28% faster. The rest of the web won't see the benefit.

  3. Actual Summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because it'd be awful if the summary actually summarized what was being done. From the article:

    To overcome this issue, the team simplified Chrome’s reload behavior and it now only validates the main resource. Facebook, just like other pages, says its pages now reload 28 percent faster, too, so the next time you want to check if your friends finally posted new pictures of their cute corgis to Facebook (and you are using the web app instead of the native FB app), you’ll now get the answer faster.

  4. TLDR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    One liner description of the change...
    They made refresh 28% faster by having it no longer refresh.

  5. Re:What does it have to do with Mozilla? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's actual information at this link, as opposed to the glorified Chrome ad that was submitted: https://code.facebook.com/posts/557147474482256/this-browser-tweak-saved-60-of-requests-to-facebook