The HTTP/2 protocol brings in a lot of benefits in terms of performance for modern web applications. To understand what benefits HTTP/2 brings, it is important to understand the limitations of HTTP/1.1 protocol.
The HTTP protocol only allows one 'outstanding' request per TCP connection - i.e. if a page is downloading 100 assets, only one request can be made per TCP connection. Browsers typically open 4-8 TCP connections per page to load the page faster (parallel requests), but this results in network congestion.
The HTTP/2 protocol is fully multiplexed - i.e. it allows multiple parallel requests/responses on the same TCP connection. It also compresses HTTP headers (reduce payload size) and is a binary protocol (not textual). The protocol also allows servers to proactively push responses directly to the browsers cache, thus avoiding HTTP requests.
The following links give an excellent explanation of the HTTP/2 protocol and its benefits.
https://http2.github.io/faq/
https://bagder.gitbooks.io/http2-explained/en/
The following site shows the performance of HTTP/2 compared to HTTP/1.1 when loading tons of images from the server - https://www.tunetheweb.com/performance-test-360/
There is another site - https://www.httpvshttps.com/ which states that HTTPS is faster than HTTP, but that is because HTTPS was using HTTP/2 by default in the background.
The HTTP protocol only allows one 'outstanding' request per TCP connection - i.e. if a page is downloading 100 assets, only one request can be made per TCP connection. Browsers typically open 4-8 TCP connections per page to load the page faster (parallel requests), but this results in network congestion.
The HTTP/2 protocol is fully multiplexed - i.e. it allows multiple parallel requests/responses on the same TCP connection. It also compresses HTTP headers (reduce payload size) and is a binary protocol (not textual). The protocol also allows servers to proactively push responses directly to the browsers cache, thus avoiding HTTP requests.
The following links give an excellent explanation of the HTTP/2 protocol and its benefits.
https://http2.github.io/faq/
https://bagder.gitbooks.io/http2-explained/en/
The following site shows the performance of HTTP/2 compared to HTTP/1.1 when loading tons of images from the server - https://www.tunetheweb.com/performance-test-360/
There is another site - https://www.httpvshttps.com/ which states that HTTPS is faster than HTTP, but that is because HTTPS was using HTTP/2 by default in the background.
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