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Do YouTube Pages Take Too Long To Load? Google Has A Fix

Google thinks smaller, faster-loading images are the key to making the Internet faster.

 

In a bid to make the Internet faster, Google is rolling out the use of smaller, faster-loading WebP format images across its services, which in some cases have decreased page load times by up to 10 percent.

Mid-last year Google replaced all png images with lossless WebP, resulting in a 35 percent reduction in file size. Now the company has started serving video thumbnails on YouTube in WebP with initial results showing a 10 percent reduction in page load times.

According to The Chromium Blog, the change will not only benefit users in the form of faster loading web pages, but also reduce data consumption. You should be happy if you're on a metered data plan.

Google's Chrome browser received animated WebP support last year, but a highly optimised version for Chrome Beta has made image loading even faster. How much faster? Google claims that the image decode time has been reduced by around 25 percent.


TAGS: Internet, Google, WebP images, page-load performance

 
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