{"id":226417,"date":"2017-08-28T08:27:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T06:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=226417"},"modified":"2017-08-28T08:28:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T06:28:30","slug":"vroom-software-could-double-your-mobile-browsing-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/226417-vroom-software-could-double-your-mobile-browsing-speed.html","title":{"rendered":"Vroom software could double your mobile browsing speed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers at the University of Michigan and MIT have found a way to dramatically speed up the mobile web<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Using “Vroom” software, they optimised the end-to-end interaction between mobile devices and web servers.<\/p>\n

The software was tested on 100 popular news and sports websites, with Vroom cutting the median load time on landing pages from 10 seconds to 5 seconds.<\/p>\n

“Vroom dramatically improves upon solutions such as proxy servers, which come with security and privacy concerns,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

Why the mobile web is slow<\/h3>\n

A reason for lag on mobile sites is that the browser must incrementally discover, download, and process close to 100 URLs before the page reveals itself.<\/p>\n

“A lot needs to be bound and assembled, especially on sports and news pages with live content and personalised ads,” said the researchers.<\/p>\n

This back-and-forth is necessary as the central processing units and the networks of mobile devices are slower than their counterparts on desktops and laptops.<\/p>\n

As a result, the mobile device’s CPU sits underutilised while requests and responses are transferred to servers over the cellular network.<\/p>\n

Users can rely on proxy servers to accelerate websites, as these essentially act as virtual CPUs – building pages before transferring them to the browser.<\/p>\n

Proxy servers compromise security and privacy, however, as they intercept HTTPS content and require access to a user’s cookies.<\/p>\n

Vroom<\/h3>\n

Vroom’s architecture removes these issues by bundling resources that browsers need to load pages.<\/p>\n

When a web server receives a request from a browser, the server informs the browser about other dependent resources it will need to fetch.<\/p>\n

Vroom takes a three-pronged approach to accomplishing this.<\/p>\n

First, it augments HTTP responses with custom headers in order to push dependent resources.<\/p>\n

Vroom then makes web servers capable of identifying what resources and dependency hints make sense for the server to pass on to the browser.<\/p>\n

Finally, Vroom coordinates server-side pushes and browser-side fetches in a way that maximises use of a device’s CPU.<\/p>\n

Now read:\u00a0MyBroadband Speed Test App gets powerful update – Now test your signal strength<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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