Now Google has improved upon this earlier release with an update to the Data Saver feature in the Chrome Android browser which can now save users up to 70% of their data usage.
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Mobile data is probably more of a commodity than anything else in our tech lives.
The implementation is very clean in that it allows you to easily load a specific image on a page by tapping its placeholder, which is good for those articles or pages where seeing the image is imperative.
For a lot of web content, loading the images isn’t always necessary – as with news articles, for instance. Apart from Google Chrome, UC Web and Opera Mini are already having similar features. It seems like it’ll be server-triggered, so all you need to do is enable Data Saver inside your Chrome app’s settings and just wait for it to show up.
In layman’s terms, what this means is that when using your mobile browser on slower connections, web surfing is sped up over what it would be otherwise.
While Apple’s mobile browser Safari for iOS offers ad-blocking to help reduce data consumption, a data-saving option is yet to be introduced. Google has so much more to give. When connectivity is poor, pages will first load without pictures, allowing for faster, less data-costly browsing. In line with the focus on emerging markets, Google will be rolling out this feature in Chrome for Android in India and Indonesia first before rolling out elsewhere. The good news is that Google has recently given the feature an update to make it more efficient.
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Oppenheimer said the feature will be expanded to other countries in coming months but there’s no mention of whether it will come to Chrome on iOS.
