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Despite that most Web traffic today comes from smartphones & Tablets, the mobile Web remains inconveniently slow. Even on fast 4G networks, a page takes 14 seconds to load on average—an eternity in today’s connected world.
A team of computer science researchers at the University of Michigan & MIT has found a way to dramatically speed up the mobile Web. Their new Vroom software prototype works by optimizing the end-to-end interaction between mobile devices & Web servers. They tested the software on 100 popular news & sports Websites, & they found that Vroom cut in half the median load time on landing pages—from 10 seconds to 5.
“Vroom dramatically improves upon solutions such as proxy servers, which come with security & privacy concerns. And it complements solutions such as Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages project, which requires Web pages to be rewritten. For any particular version of a Web page, Vroom optimizes the process of loading that page,” said Harsha Madhyastha, U-M associate professor of computer science & engineering & one of Vroom’s developers.
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