SPDY is a significant net benefit for high latency / high bandwidth connections. Indeed, I would say that is its primary strength. I'm starting to find it curi

SPDY is a significant net benefit for high latency / high bandwidth connections. Indeed, I would say that is its primary strength. I'm starting to find it curious how virtually every "SPDY doesn't improve things" study implements the same two critical flaws, to the point that it starts to seem conspiratorial. a) They compare SPDY, with mandatory TLS, with unencrypted HTTP. HTTP needs to go away, and the only valid comparison would be with HTTPS. b) They implement their test via a non-caching proxy that then proxies request to "top sites". This is identical to the critical fault that the other primary SPDY critical paper makes, because it essentially invalidates the primary value of SPDY (the upstream site becomes the weak link, itself not using SPDY). This is a ridiculous way of demonstrating the strengths or weaknesses of SPDY (akin to declaring a sports car slow by demanding that it drive behind a transport truck), yet this same methodology keeps curiously recurring.