It's called Polaris and it works like this: Rather than pinging a server to bring back the initial bit of a webpage which then triggers additional dependencies on those initial loads, and thus more pings to the server, Polaris requests data in the most efficient sequence at the outset. it does so automatically and because it's based in JavaScript itself, it can be deployed on a site-by-site basis and without a special browser. However, a website needs to have Polaris running on its servers to take advantage of the speed boosts it provides.



Researcher Ravi Netravali tells Motherboard that ultimately his team wants to open-source Polaris. That would hopefully lead to browser extensions featuring the tech and perhaps even working with the likes of Google or Mozilla to make it a native part of the browser.