Google’s new algorithm will increase the overall speed of Chrome

It can be annoying when you have to wait for a long time to browse on the web page. To make the browser faster to run, Google introduced a new compression algorithm last September, which is called Brotli. According to Google, Brotli will be able to make Google Chrome to load web pages much faster than you’ve experienced up until now.

Brotli is an open source data compression, and an completely new data offering 20-26% greater compression than Chrome’s existing Zopfli. 2013 saw the first release of Brotli in 2013, this version is built for off-line compression of web fonts. Another release in September 2015 by the Google engineer contains enhancements in generic lossless data compression.

Google announced Brotli in September last year, claiming that this this new compression  algorithm will be able to compress data up to 26% more than the currently used compression engine, Zopfli. The improvement is such a meaningful jump.

Google Chrome mainly rivals to some famous browsers like Firefox, IE, Safari. Associated test showed that Google Chrome ranked the first in the browser speed test. Packed with new algorithm, Chrome might continue to maintain a leading position.

Google’s web performance engineer IIya Grigorik said that Brotli was ready to roll out. Chrome users would be able to see a bump in load time when Google launched the next version of Chrome.

“lower data transfer fees and reduced battery use” is what users can experience with the new compression algorithm. Google also expresses hopes that Brotli can be adopted not only in Chrome, but also some other browsers before long. One of Google Chrome’s counterpart Firefox seems to follow Chrome and adopt the new compression algorithm in its future updates. With a faster web page loading, this new algorithm might be seen in more browsers in the future.

The Chrome users can expect to experience a faster web pages loading this week.