Google launching lighter web pages for faster mobile browsing in India

It’s quite frustrating when you browse through web pages on your smartphone and find yourself limited with a slow mobile internet connection. According to Google , since there are “over 200 million Indians accessing the Internet from a smartphone, even if users spend 1 second a day waiting for a page to load, that adds up to more than two and a half years of people waiting, every day!”

So whether you are following updates and scores from a game of cricket , or trying to book a ticket on IRCTC , or are even trying to find the phone number for your favourite eatery, time is critical. We have heard of the bad network across mobile operators in India, and the resulting experience of mobile internet is quite disappointing, especially in India.

The blog went on to say, “We’re exploring some new ways to speed things up. In two weeks, we’ll start to roll out a new feature which we hope will do just that. If you’re in India, with an Android phone and on a slow connection, like 2G, you should start to see pages loading a whole lot faster, while using far less data, via your Chrome or Android browser from Google’s search results.”

According to Google, these optimised pages use 80% less data and have effectively resulted in 50% more page views.