Ever since the internet community accepted the HTTP protocol for the internet, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) has been the foundation for all websites and has been regarded as the global protocol for internet usage.

However, Google it seems, is not satisfied with the HTTP protocol and is working feverishly to create new web standards that would enable Google to speed up the internet, two times faster than the current page loading speed. The current test runs of the SPDY protocol at Google have given sufficient proof that, the new standard is faster than the HTTP and works efficiently in reducing latency.

The open source behind the Google Chrome web browser, Chromium is the essence that drives Google’s web browser’s astonishing performance and it is the same team that is now prodding the SPDY protocol to make the internet a much faster experience. The engineers at Google are currently reviewing the ways through which internet browsers communicate to the websites’ servers. The SPDY protocol works in the same manner as the HTTP, in transferring data between servers and browsers.

HTTP protocol has been a long standing web standard since its inception in the year 1996 and has been incorporated throughout the internet servers. Google has so far been testing the SPDY protocol in the Google Chrome in lab version and has stated that, the protocol has infact shown a significant increase in the download speeds. The tests of the SPDY protocol included the time recorded for the landing page time of 25 websites and the results showed a 55% speed increase in the time it took for the webpage to load.

Via Gizmag.