The Internet may put nearly every imaginable piece of information at our fingertips. But when you’re waiting for a Web page or mobile app to load, it can feel more annoying than convenient. Help is now at hand. An upgrade to the protocol that underpins the Web could help wrest back many of those precious wasted seconds
Last February, Internet wonks signed off on the first upgrade in more than 15 years to the HTTP standard on which Web pages and mobile apps are built. Today one of its most powerful features has been made available at large scale for the first time by CloudFlare, a company that serves up Web content on behalf of over two million websites, including roughly 7 percent of the most popular million sites. Its customers include Reddit and OkCupid.
