• Mashable, Friday, February 19, 2010 3:08 PM

Facebook is claiming that it recently managed to make the site two times faster over a six-month period, from last June through the beginning of this year. "We call the whole system BigPipe and it allows us to break our web pages up in to logical blocks of content, called Pagelets, and pipeline the generation and render of these Pagelets," explains the social network. Translation?

"They managed to speed up the site primarily by reducing the number of cookies and cutting back on JavaScript," writes Mashable, before noting recent user complaints that Facebook is slower than ever. "It's been that way for me, too," Mashable's Stan Schroeder says of the noticeably slower service. Still, "With Facebook's userbase growing the way it does, keeping the site fast enough will always be a challenge."

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