Monday, November 5, 2007

Accelerate Web Browsing - Google Web Accelerator

"Google Web Accelerator" is an application that uses the power of Google's global computer network to make web pages load faster. Google Web Accelerator is easy to use; all you have to do is download and install it, and from then on many web pages will automatically load faster than before.

Google Web Accelerator uses various strategies to make your web pages load faster, including:

  • Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling Google Web Accelerator traffic.
  • Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly accessible.
  • Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since you last viewed it.
  • Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance.
  • Managing your Internet connection to reduce delays.
  • Compressing data before sending it to your computer.
Platform - Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP 3+ with Internet Explorer or Firefox
Size - 1.65MB
Cost - Free
Website to Download - http://webaccelerator.google.com/index.html


* There is a small display on the menu bar of your browser where it will display the total time saved. For me, I have been using Firefox today for over 3 hours and the total time saved was 6.2 minutes. Not bad.

1 comment:

Wasi Shah said...

Nice software, clean layout and easy to use. I love these kind of softwares to get maximum speed of Internet. I have come to read an article to speedup your Internet Downloads, nicely written by James.