Every year the internet connection gets faster and faster, but this does not affect our site loading speed. The answer is clear. Every year, websites become more and more complex, so we stand still in terms of loading speed.
That problem has quite annoyed a group of researchers from MIT. A group of computer scientists and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have found a new way to speed up the web. The most interesting part is that they do not speed up loading by changing the code.
Polaris is written in JavaScript. This framework decides how to load the site in the minimum period.
How does the browser load a site?
When you type a URL into a browser and press enter, the browser collects a bunch of stuff like HTML files, JavaScript, and more. Browser collects literally everything!
To simplify things, it's like coming to a new city without a map of the city and going in zig zags and thus connecting in that new city what doesn't go where and finding out what the city has.
Polaris improves speed for the 34%
Polaris uses a detailed log with instructions (city map) using "dependency trackers" for sites. As a result the site loads much faster. Polaris is more focused on more complex sites with thousands of JavaScript objects.
Polaris has already been tested on over 200 different types of sites such as Wikipedia, Weather.com, and ESPN. And the result is about 34% faster loading.
Here's the best part, Polaris is written in JavaScript, a language for the Web. What does that actually mean? It can be used for any site! It is simply run on the server and will automatically improve and speed up site loading without any modification to the site itself.
The team of researchers wants Polaris to become an integral part of every Web browser and enable literally every site to load faster.
