Thanks to how much faster our internet speeds are getting, websites load pretty fast, but of course it could always be improved upon which is what Google is going for in the latest Chrome Canary build. The company has introduced a new feature called “lazy loading” that will make pages load even faster.
How does this work? Basically websites will now render whatever is visible on the screen. This means that if there are a bunch of images below your screen that you cannot see, it won’t load those and will only load what’s visible. This cuts down the amount of items that needs to be rendered which ultimately saves time.
According to a benchmark test done on Basemark, there is definitely improvements. Chrome Canary clocked in with a score of 501.54, versus the current build of Chrome which scored 489.69. It’s not a huge difference, but ultimately all these milliseconds do add up over the course of the day, and sometimes you don’t need a full page load to get the information you want.
That being said, this is a Chrome Canary build which means that it won’t be available to all Chrome users yet. Hopefully by the time it is ready, it will be even more improved than what we are seeing now.