Google's lightweight image format
makes YouTube pages load 10 percent faster
We all want the internet to be faster, right? Well, Google
is hoping to make that happen one YouTube thumbnail at a time. Its leaner WebP
image format has been used on the Play store for some
time now, and Mountain View's latest venue for the faster-loading files its
video service. The outfit says that the switch has resulted in up to 10 percent
speedier page-loads, and overall it's shaved tens of terabytes off its internal
data transfer rates every day. The
Chromium Blog says that this should help lower bandwidth usage for
users as it rolls out, and, what's more, that there's a test-version of WebP
running in Chrome's beta channel that's faster yet. How much so? It drops image
decode speeds by 25 percent. If that means faster access to super
hero videos and pictures
of lazy dogs, sign us up.
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