Over the years, many attempts have been made to speed up the loading of pages on mobile devices, but all of the techniques have come with their flaws - Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages changes the way the sites look, and the different proxies pose a security risk. Now engineers have found a way to speed up mobile browsers without the compromises described above.
The Vroom architecture boasts mobile sites up to twice as fast as other conventional mobile browser engines - this is done by optimizing the way the site is loaded, no matter how it is developed and built. Typically, the web browser for smartphones should process about 100 links before displaying a site on the screen. This means a lot of queries and a corresponding long response time from different servers. Vroom, for its part, collects the information needed to fill the entire site. When the browser asks for data, the clever architecture even provides "hints" about the various resources and coordinates needed to deliver this content using the maximum processor of the mobile phone. Like most magical things at first glance, this code has a trap. Servers need to "know" how to reorganize the data. This in practice means that Vroom needs to be distributed massively enough to be able to work effectively with Web servers. To our delight, the project has the support of the National Science Foundation, Google and MIT, so this can happen quite sooner than we guess.
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