Brotli replaces Zopfli, Google's current web compression engine responsible for reducing the size of design assets including styles and fonts delivered from websites to the browser.

According to Google's web performance engineer Ilya Grigorik, Brotli is ready to roll out, so Chrome users should expect to see a bump in load times once the next version of Chrome is released.

Brotli will be introduced to Chrome soon, but as Google announced in September, it has big aspirations for its latest data compression algorithm. In addition to the potential to reduce file sizes by up to 26 percent, Google says the algorithm also reduces power usage on mobile devices.

The company hopes that other browsers will pick up the technology and that it will becoming a "new data format", speeding them all up.

It does that while also achieving comparable decompression speeds which, it might not surprise you to hear, "allows for better space utilization and faster page loads".

Prior to this, Google used another algorithm called Zopfli. The most important one is that the format mandates the use of the secure HTTPS connection type as Google continues to push the web away from the older and unprotected HTTP.

To enable the feature, simply navigate to chrome://flags#enable-brotli.

So when will we get to use this new version of Chrome?