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Anyone know where the push for SPDY is coming from? I thought it wasn't much faster (<5%) than http/https.
by nodata 13y ago
Anyone know where the push for SPDY is coming from? I thought it wasn't much faster (<5%) than http/https.
- drsintoma 13y agoI believe it has been Google all along, I guess when you do things at their scale this matters, but indeed I can't see any average dev rushing to support it.
- rdl 13y agoIt's lower overhead for the server, too.
- nodata 13y agoDo you know how much lower overhead?
- rdl 13y agoWell, it's not just the front end; it's the load balancer and whatever other infrastructure, since it packs things into a single connection more effectively. For hn, not an issue (since it's a single nginx in front of a single threaded arc process). http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-best-practices http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-best-practices seems legit.
- EvilLook 13y agoHave you measured your gains?
- ghayes 13y agoTried to find where you pulled this number. This study seems in-line with your hypothesis (it states a gain over HTTPS, and a loss over HTTP): http://www.guypo.com/technical/not-as-spdy-as-you-thought/ http://www.guypo.com/technical/not-as-spdy-as-you-thought/
- FooBarWidget 13y agoIt depends. I have a site with a lot of assets (about 70 images) and using SPDY made it 30% faster than plain HTTP thanks to better pipelining.
- mousefad 13y agoI believe some pron sites use it. The benefit increases with pages which have a lot of assets, which applies particularly well to typical pron sites with their multitude of images per page.