YouTube Gets Faster And Lighter With “Feather”

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youtube feather YouTube Gets Faster And Lighter With “Feather” Google’s love for speed is unbeatable, as we recently saw Google minimalistic homepage and site performing tool to speed up the web at large. And the urge continues with the most interesting and well-admired product of Google. Yes, it is YouTube; the giant team is now running an exciting test called “Feather” to strip down most of the things to make the video site faster and lighter.

According to Google Operating System –

Feather is a new feature from YouTube Labs. The goal is “to serve YouTube video watch pages with the lowest latency possible. It achieves this by severely limiting the features available to the viewer and making use of advanced web techniques for reducing the total amount of bytes downloaded by the browser.

The test result according to Chrome’s Dev Tool is a lightning-fast, “feather”-light page five times smaller than the original, which is about 65 KB versus around 300 KB and loading three times as fast from a little over 2 seconds to around 650 ms. But Google will have to please the users to make use of the site even with the many missing features in the “feather” version: search suggestions, posting comments, viewing all the comments, rating videos, customizing the embedded player. Another issue is that the lite version is not available for all videos.

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