Google recommends TCP tweaks for faster web

The web as it is today is a big network of devices all over the world connected together. A Google blog post by Yuchung Cheng, who’s part of the ‘Make The Web Faster’ team has listed a number of changes to TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) that can help speed up the Internet by a fair bit. Internet browsers access web pages in streams and several connections are made simultaneously to download elements of these pages. For example, there are hundreds of images and elements on pages, and bunches of them are downloaded simultaneously, while the rest of them are queued up. There are, of course, issues with latency in such scenarios, which need to be bypassed. Click here for full story