In Google’s Chromium blog this week, they announced that a new project called SPDY (pronounced SPeeDY) would make the world twice as fast. When I say ‘world’, I mean the Internet which is the only real world for a lot of people.

Google has always had faster pages than the rest of us and it isn’t all down to muscle. Soon we will be able catch up with them. According to the SPDY whitepaper…

The SPDY project defines and implements an application-layer protocol for the web which greatly reduces latency. The high-level goals for SPDY are:

• To target a 50% reduction in page load time. Our preliminary results have come close to this target (see below).
• To minimize deployment complexity. SPDY uses TCP as the underlying transport layer, so requires no changes to existing networking infrastructure.
• To avoid the need for any changes to content by website authors. The only changes required to support SPDY are in the client user agent and web server applications.