SPDY 50% Faster Web Page Delivery

Google is making its way to deliver web pages faster so they released a module for Apache server software. Using their SPDY (pronounced as speedy) protocol, Apache can deliver a web page 50% faster than normal.

This release is really great since SPDY will become available in public. Though Google started working on SPDY last 2009, it was just more prominent to IT world. Well, this geeky protocol is now coming to the internet world as a whole as well. In fact, Twitter started to use SPDY recently to send pages to those browsers supporting the protocol.

So how does SPDY works in sending web pages in less time? Well, it does so by letting the servers send many different contents of a web page all at once. This boosts the speed and loading time since it eliminates all the sets of functions that usually sent back and forth in the plain HTTP. Moreover, it also lets the server understand what a browser needs to run in a web page without having to wait for the browser’s message. The good thing is, both of those processes I mentioned happens at the same time. In short, the delivery of traffic is just done in one flow and it cuts the former back and forth communication that needs some time.

Google needs to have a support for browsers and servers alike so that SPDY can go publicly. This big step of Google in releasing a module for Apache is a great answer to this.

Some bigger companies are actually already using SPDY. Amazon, a famous site in selling various products, is using SPDY so the communication between its browser and proxy servers is fast.
For SPDY to be experienced by internet surfers, is has to be supported by the common browsers. Google Chrome is already supporting SPDY and Firefox will also support it in its next version (version 11). However, the other rival Microsoft Internet Explorer might not go for this since they are also developing their own web pages boosting tool called HTTP Speed+Mobility.

Internet surfing is becoming even faster through this wonderful developments that engineers are creating. Surely, people will have a better experience in waiting for loading time in those web pages they want to see. This is really a great boost in the internet world!

Apache server · Chrome · Google