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Abstract | ||
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As of February, 2015, HTTP/2, the update to the 16-year-old HTTP 1.1, is officially complete. HTTP/2 aims to improve the Web experience by solving well-known problems (e.g., head of line blocking and redundant headers), while introducing new features (e.g., server push and content priority). On paper HTTP/2 represents the future of the Web. Yet, it is unclear whether the Web itself will, and should, hop on board. To shed some light on these questions, we built a measurement platform that monitors HTTP/2 adoption and performance across the Alexa top 1 million websites on a daily basis. Our system is live and up-to-date results can be viewed at http://isthewebhttp2yet.com/. In this paper, we report our initial findings from a 6 month measurement campaign (November 2014 - May 2015). We find 13,000 websites reporting HTTP/2 support, but only 600, mostly hosted by Google and Twitter, actually serving content. In terms of speed, we find no significant benefits from HTTP/2 under stable network conditions. More benefits appear in a 3G network where current Web development practices make HTTP/2 more resilient to losses and delay variation than previously believed. |
Year | Venue | Field |
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2015 | CoRR | Web development,Push technology,World Wide Web,URL redirection,Computer science,HTTP/2,Head-of-line blocking,Network conditions |
DocType | Volume | Citations |
Journal | abs/1507.06562 | 2 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.42 | 2 | 6 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matteo Varvello | 1 | 797 | 48.31 |
| Kyle Schomp | 2 | 100 | 7.05 |
| David Naylor | 3 | 207 | 9.96 |
| Jeremy Blackburn | 4 | 415 | 41.72 |
| Alessandro Finamore | 5 | 700 | 42.23 |
| Kostantina Papagiannaki | 6 | 33 | 2.04 |