Parallel streaming of progressive images
Cloudflare has combined progressive image rendering and HTTP/2 multiplexing technologies to create a new method that significantly improves the perceived speed of loading for progressive images, making them appear in half the time. This is achieved by sending the most important fragments of image data sooner. The end result is that images can look almost fully loaded in half the time, without adding any cost to file size or requiring additional requests. This technique takes advantage of existing web standards and is compatible with all browsers.
Company
Cloudflare
Date published
May 14, 2019
Author(s)
Andrew Galloni, Kornel LesiĆski
Word count
1772
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Language
English