Google just announced that it is working on a a new protocol that will minimize latency and speed up the web experience for users. SPDY (pronounced “speedy) is not meant to replace HTTP, the protocol that allows web servers and browsers to talk to each other today, but it does augment HTTP. The new protocol incorporates features like multiplexed streams, request prioritization and HTTP header compression. Google has already developed a prototype web server and a version of Google Chrome with built-in SPDY support. Sponsor Google claims that pages loaded up 64% faster in lab tests where the research team downloaded the top 25 websites. Now that the SPDY team has developed workable prototypes, Google decided to open up the process and is soliciting the “active participation, feedback and assistance of the web community.” In today’s announcement, Google stresses that SPDY is not a replacement for HTTP. It uses HTTP methods and headers, but it overrides the parts of the protocol that ma…[...]

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SPDY: Google Wants to Speed Up the Web With New Protocol