Web browsers have become one of the most used programs of all those we have installed on our PC. We have many alternatives to choose from, but the undisputed leader in the sector is Google Chrome.
In fact, you could say that this is one of the search giant’s great projects, so it does not stop improving it as much as possible. When evaluating a program with these characteristics, there are several sections that we take into consideration. On the one hand, we look at the user interface it offers us, its speed of operation and security measures.
In addition, they usually offer us a good number of customizable functions to adjust their behavior to our needs or preferences. One of the company’s main objectives is for Chrome to be the fastest browser on the market, something they want to achieve at all costs.
Recently, they have just introduced an interesting novelty to achieve this objective that we mentioned. In these lines we are going to focus on a function that has just been introduced, not only in its own browser, but in all those that use the Chromium rendering engine. In this way, what Google wants is to improve the performance and speed of operation of its Chrome project by optimizing the use of cookies.
These small software elements, which are part of most browsers, have generated enormous controversy in recent years. They are an implicit part of these programs and are stored automatically as we visit web pages. However, the search giant has realized that, regardless of their usefulness or annoyance, they also represent a significant brake on the speed of the browser.
This is how Google improves the use of cookies in Chrome
This increase in program performance, as we told you, has been due to better use of the aforementioned cookies. And the company detected that there are many websites that do not have the cookie use system well implemented. Basically, this means that there are pages on which resource requests are made continuously.
This means that when requests are made for the same cookies, these elements accumulate continuously, which results in a significant slowdown of the browser. And it accumulates processes and all of this slows down the loading of the websites themselves. This is not a problem that happens with all the pages we visit, but it does with a good part of them. To give us a better idea, Google has discovered that 87% of cookie accesses are redundant.
All of this causes the browser to become unnecessarily overloaded. This movement causes significant drops in performance in the software that can be easily avoided. What’s more, they saw that certain websites made hundreds of requests for the same cookies every second. Hence the arrival of the Share Memory Versioning feature. Its main objective is to optimize the way in which cookie requests are managed.
With the change we mentioned, problems with cookies have been reduced by 80%. This translates into a speed increase of up to 60% in some cases, which will always be appreciated. Additionally, hopefully the company will continue working on Share Memory Versioning to improve Chrome’s performance over time.
