Strangeloop Networks has embraced Google's technology for making the Web a notch faster, and finds it's a big notch: more than half the time to load a Web page. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Network engineers and hard-core Web architects know that HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol), the data transfer method used by the Web, isn't the most efficient data transfer protocol around. So, back ...

SPDY aims to revolutionize the web by creating a faster browsing experience. In fact, the Google Chromium blog says the SPDY protocol is 2x as fast as HTTP in its test labs. The load speed results of ...

On the Chromium blog, Mike Belshe and Roberto Peon write about an early-stage research project called SPDY ("speedy"). Unhappy with the performance of the venerable hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), ...

The technology for speeding up Web pages becomes part of the standard foundation of the Web. But should that standardization effort reach beyond just SPDY? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

As part of their effort to speed delivery of Web pages, Google engineers have released a module for the Apache Web server software that augments the basic protocols used for carrying Web traffic ...

The latest Labs release of Opera's flagship desktop web browser adds support for the nascent SPDY protocol. You can download the latest Opera Labs build for Windows ...

HTTP, the protocol that underpins almost every inch of the world wide web, is about to make the jump from version 1.1 to 2.0 after some 13 years of stagnation. For a long time it looked like Google's ...

Twitter has embraced Google's vision of a faster web and is now serving webpages over the SPDY protocol to browsers that support it. SPDY, pronounced "speedy," is a replacement for the HTTP protocol – ...

Google is showing off the performance of SPDY, a web protocol designed to make surfing the web faster, and has found a performance boost of 23 percent for mobile devices. Google is showing off the ...

Google's SPDY protocol is already gaining traction among web browsing heavyweights such as Chrome and Firefox, but its next step may be its biggest showing to date -- albeit in a different form.

A little over five years ago, Google unveiled SPDY, a new protocol that it positioned as a more secure, better-performing replacement for hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), the communication protocol ...