Wow, Android data compression is a huge improvement

[desura]

On my android device, I recently enabled data compression in Chrome.

Night and day difference in smoothness of rendering and speed. Just a tip. Pretty good.

 

[Yayo3p]

Yes, i guess its called Data Saver or something. Its supposed to kinda of Cache the websites you have visited (when this setting is turn on) in Google servers so that the cellphone does not have to download the content over and over which is the reason why your data is used a lot.

 

[JeffMD]

It uses google servers as a proxy, doing 2 things. a) forcing zip compression on all html, and 2) further reduces the quality (and thus, file size) of images. Opera has been doing it for years.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

If you want Google to see every page you go to sure...

 

[cronos]

And if you still use a browser...

 

[shabby]

If you want Google to see every page you go to sure...

I thought this only works on non secure websites, most are using https nowadays.

 

[Megatomic]

And if you still use a browser...

So how do you view a webpage if not with a browser?

 

[Yayo3p]

I thought this only works on non secure websites, most are using https nowadays.

Yeup, if the feature is on Google will not be able to cache SSH websites.

 

[Yayo3p]

So how do you view a webpage if not with a browser?

maybe he uses a toolbar?

 

[jacktesterson]

I thought this only works on non secure websites, most are using https nowadays.

ding ding ding

 

[cronos]

So how do you view a webpage if not with a browser?

I very rarely view a Web page from my mobile device. Almost everything is done through apps.

 

[Megatomic]

I very rarely view a Web page from my mobile device. Almost everything is done through apps.

Most of my content is presented in an app, but I do still use my mobile browser quite often. I guess I can see some people being even more app-centric.

 

[shabby]

I very rarely view a Web page from my mobile device. Almost everything is done through apps.

So you have the anandtech app? Cnn app? Fox news app? Espn app? Weather app? 9gag app? Bible app? Google app? Porn app? Your fave car app?

 

[cronos]

So you have the anandtech app? Cnn app? Fox news app? Espn app? Weather app? 9gag app? Bible app? Google app? Porn app? Your fave car app?

Something like that. All forums are through Tapatalk, all newsfeed through Feedly, reddit app, and that's already 75%+ of my mobile device usage right there. The rest are standard stuff like email, a few messaging apps, a few social media type apps, and one or two puzzle games to kill time. That's it.

 

[tsupersonic]

So you have the anandtech app? Cnn app? Fox news app? Espn app? Weather app? 9gag app? Bible app? Google app? Porn app? Your fave car app?

Yes, I'd say 95% of mobile browsing is done through apps - Bacon Reader, Tapatalk, Youtube, Netflix. Then there are services where the app is very beneficial - mostly media apps, Google Maps, etc. According to my data usage, Chrome has only used 100 MB.