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    Smart code helps your phone browse the web twice as quickly

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    Jon Fingas
    Jon Fingas
    08.27.2017

    Many attempts at improving the speed of mobile web browsing involve some obvious sacrifices: Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages alter how you view the pages, while proxies introduce the risk of someone intercepting your sensitive data. Researchers have found a way to boost performance without those compromises, though. Their Vroom architecture loads mobile websites up to twice as quickly by optimizing how a site loads, no matter how that site is built -- even an AMP page stands to load faster. It boils down to loading more of the site at once, rather than the back and forth that usually takes place.