FasterWeb Wants To Make The Entire Web Up To Ten Times Faster In 2010

As the web matures, it's also getting more complex. Yet much of it is still fundamentally based on things like HTML which are 30 years old. A new startup, FasterWeb, aims to bring these old technologies up to speed — as it were — making the web faster, by optimizing the old standards for doing new things. And in doing so, it claims that it can increase the performance of any site by 2 to 10 times — something which would obviously be a huge leap forward, if it can deliver. One VC firm, YL Ventures , believes that it can. And they've seen it in action, so we'll just have to take their word for it, for now. We spoke with Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf , managing parter at YL, and he tells us that the different between the regular web versus a site optimized with FasterWeb, is pretty staggering. And that's why his firm had no hesitation in pouring an undisclosed amount of money into the Israeli-based venture. So how does FasterWeb claim to work? Leitersdorf wouldn't go into the details, saying that's the company's secret, but he would say that it uses 45 different techniques to optimize the web. He also said that this is done either on the end of the content provider or the ISP. In other words, the end user doesn't have to do a thing to experience the increase in web speed. And FasterWeb will work across all the major web browsers, starting with Internet Explorer and Firefox immediately, and expanding to the rest, including Opera, Chrome and Safari, when it's ready for its widespread release next year.