HTTP/2

The web of future

Why HTTP/2?

I will go ahead and do a small spoiler right at the beginning. This is a comparison of HTTP and HTTPS protocol performances. At first sight HTTPS should be slower, as takes much time for encryption. Please note that the data (images) is coming from the local virtual machine, so the demonstration should be as precise as possible, though there still are a lot of factors why we can't see much more significant difference. Let's run the demo and see what happens.

The page consists of two IFrames with identical content. Same large number of images generated inside each page. The result we are expecting to have is to see HTTPS ends loading earlier.

Q: Anyone can guess why the HTTPS is faster?

HTTP/2

The web of future

Why HTTP/2?

HTTP 1.0

1995

SO WHAT ABOUT US?

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