It’s been in Google Chrome for some time, but it’s only recently the SPDY (pronounced “Speedy”) protocol has blazed a path onto another browser — in this case Firefox. Come version 11, Mozilla’s popular open-source internet window will be able to communicate with SPDY-compatible servers, delivering improved browsing performance compared to the ancient, but functional, HTTP.
Last year, Google launched their own DNS servers in an attempt to speed up internet load times for those who trusted them enough to handle their web routing. Now they want to speed up those load times again using SPDY, a new optimisation protocol.
Google’s working on a new application-layer protocol dubbed SPDY (pronounced “SPeeDY”) which is intended to improve how content is transported over the web. In initial lab tests, they’ve already managed to speed up page loading times by 55 per cent.
