Knowing most visitors come to our Strikingly websites from a mobile device, Page Speed is our No. 1 challenge.
Knowing that having servers supporting the HTTP/2 protocol boosts page load speed, I would love to see the Strikingly servers supporting the HTTP/2 protocol asap!
What do you think?
Cheers, Frans (Amsterdam, www.seo359.com)
What is HTTP/2?
HTTP/2 is the first major HTTP protocol update since 1997 when HTTP/1.1 was first published by the IETF. The new HTTP protocol is needed to keep up with the exponential growth of the web. The successor of HTTP/1.1 brings significant improvement in efficiency, speed, and security and is supported by most modern web browsers. A list of browsers that support HTTP/2 can be found on caniuse.com.
- HTTP/2 is binary, instead of textual.
- It is fully multiplexed, sending multiple requests in parallel over a single TCP connection.
- It uses header compression HPACK to reduce overhead.
- It allows servers to “push” responses proactively into client caches instead of waiting for a new request for each resource
- It uses the new ALPN extension which allows for faster-encrypted connections since the application protocol is determined during the initial connection.
- It reduces additional round trip times (RTT), making your website load faster without any optimization.
- Domain sharding and asset concatenation are no longer needed with HTTP/2.
HTTP/2 introduces other improvements, more details: HTTP/2 RFC7540
