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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. 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.

    1. Re:Not all pages by freeze128 · · Score: 4, Funny

      In other news, Chrome now uses 12% more RAM.

  2. Re:Umm, no... usually the page is broken. by gnick · · Score: 5, Funny

    I reload the page to see if I've gotten any replies to my /. posts since my last refresh.

    I know how sad that is.

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

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

  4. Re:Umm, no... usually the page is broken. by sycodon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I reload the page because the pornhub video froze up.

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