One of the ways Google’s grown to dominate the search engine market has been its emphasis on speed. Google consistently provides results in a fraction of a second.
Now, as Server Watch details, Google is helping to speed up the Web itself with a technology contribution to the open source Apache Web Server. Sites that rely on the Apache 2.2 Web server can expect a 50 percent improvement in page load times, among other benefits the article details.
The open source Apache Web Server has been the leading Web server technology for over a decade.
Now thanks to Google, the tens of millions of sites that rely on the Apache Web Server may soon benefit from a speed boost.