This week at LWN: Reducing HTTP latency with SPDY

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 28, 2009 6:15 PM EDT
LWN.net; By Nathan Willis
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Google unveiled an experimental open source project in early November aimed at reducing web site load times. SPDY, as it is called, is a modification to HTTP designed to target specific, real-world latency issues without altering GET, POST, or any other request semantics, and without requiring changes to page content or network infrastructure. It does this by implementing request prioritization, stream multiplexing, and header compression. Results from tests on a SPDY-enabled Chrome and a SPDY web server show a reduction in load times of up to 60%.

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