HTTP/2 – A Real-World Performance Test and Analysis [↗]
Our conclusions are therefore:
- HTTP/2 is faster in terms of performance and site loading time than HTTP1.x.
- Minification and other ways of reducing the size of the web page being served is always going to provide more benefits than the overhead required to perform this “minification”.
- Reducing the distance between the server and the client will always provide page loading time performance benefits so using a CDN is still a necessity if you want to push the performance envelope of your site, whether you’ve enabled HTTP/2 or not.
No real surprises, but if you’re interested in implementing HTTP/2, it’s worth a read. Talking of which, I still need to fix this.