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Google built a V8 JavaScript engine that helped Chrome to load pages 10-20 percent faster on average than it did a year ago.

Seth Thompson, V8 Track Commentator, explained, that the team started measuring performance with higher fidelity by instrumenting snapshots of Chrome browser on popular webpages like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and Wikipedia.

The analysis reveals the peak performance benefits certain types of large web applications, browsing typical websites relies more on startup performance, or the speed it takes to start running script.

The team implemented optimizations that had improved mean page load between Chrome 49 and Chrome 56 by 10-20 percent, depending on CPU architecture. Last year, the V8 JavaScript engine received some important updates that reduced RAM requirements by as much as 50 percent over previous versions of the browser.

 

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The team used Speedometer benchmark to glean performance as the benchmark was an approximation of many sites due to its inclusion of real Web frameworks including React, Angular, Ember, and jQuery.

V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine has been written in C++ and is used in Chromium and multiple other embedding applications.

 

Thompson added, we plan to ship more JavaScript performance improvements for new patterns of script appearing on the web, including modern libraries, frameworks, and ES2015+ language features.