If you’re someone who camps out auction websites hoping to place a last minute bid to secure your item, then you know that reloading times of a website are important. This is the same for those hoping to purchase limited edition items online or buying tickets online which can be quickly sold out no thanks to scalpers with bots.
The good news is that you use Google’s Chrome browser, the development team has announced that they are making some changes under the hood of its browser that will now reload pages faster than before. According to the developers, “To improve the stale content use case, Chrome now has a simplified reload behavior to only validate the main resource and continue with a regular page load. This new behavior maximizes the reuse of cached resources and results in lower latency, power consumption, and data usage.”
As for how fast this will reload your pages, we guess it depends on the website itself and your connection, but so far Google’s testing has found that the changes they made have resulted in reload speeds of up to 28% faster than before. Not only that, but these reloads will use less bandwidth and power, meaning that you’ll consume less data and your phone or laptop will last longer than before.
Google is also saying that their claims have been validated by Facebook who told them that they are seeing 28% faster page reloads and 60% less validation requests, in which the technical details can be found on Facebook’s website.