If there’s anything Google loves as much as search, it’s speed. Chrome was built on a foundation of speed. Faster JavaScript, faster graphics acceleration, faster browser startup. Google Code has a page dedicated specifically to speed. And on top of all that, Google started a project called SPDY (SPeeDY. Get it?) that aims to reach beyond the influence of the Chrome browser to speed up the entire web.
Until now, SPDY has been an internal experiment at Google--as you can imagine, rolling out a protocol that modifies HTTP is no easy task. That’s exactly what SPDY does, and Google’s used the protocol to lower page load times by as much as 64%. To take the first step into the web at large, Google’s partnering with an optimization company called Strangeloop--together they’ll insert SPDY into a software layer between Internet servers and users.
