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Flywheel: Google’s Data Compression Proxy for the Mobile Web Victor Agababov, Michael Buettner, Victor Chudnovsky, Mark Cogan, Ben Greenstein, Shane McDaniel, and Michael Piatek, Google, Inc.; Colin Scott, University of California, Berkeley; Matt Welsh and Bolian Yin, Google, Inc. /conference/nsdi15/technical-sessions/presentation/agababov This paper is included in the Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’15). May 4–6, 2015 • Oakland, CA, USA ISBN 978-1-931971-218 Open Access to the Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’15) is sponsored by USENIX Flywheel: Google’s Data Compression Proxy for the Mobile Web Victor Agababov∗ Michael Buettner Victor Chudnovsky Mark Cogan Ben Greenstein Shane McDaniel Michael Piatek Colin Scott† Matt Welsh Bolian Yin Google, Inc. † UC Berkeley Abstract Although the number of sites that are tuned for mo- bile devices is growing, there is still a huge opportunity Mobile devices are increasingly the dominant Internet to save users money by compressing web content via a access technology. Nevertheless, high costs, data caps,