tech2 News Staff

In an attempt to make its Chrome browser faster, Google has announced it will be integrating the Brotli compression algorithm in it. Ilya Grigorik, Web Performance Engineer at Google shared in an update that they intend to make it available soon.

Brotli, named after a type of German bread, was announced in September last year. Zoltan Szabadka, Software Engineer, Compression Team shared in a blog that the Zopfli compression algorithm that was published two years back was received positively and had been integrated into many compression solutions ranging from PNG optimisers to preprocessing web content. The new Brotli is a whole new data format that allows them to get 20-26% higher compression ratios over Zopfli.

Brotli compresses more densely that allows for better space utlisation and faster page loads.