| Consider the UDP-based QUIC protocol that Chrome now supports. From http://blog.chromium.org/2015/04/a-quic-update-on-googles-ex...: "For latency-sensitive services like web search, the largest gains come from zero-round-trip connection establishment. The standard way to do secure web browsing involves communicating over TCP + TLS, which requires 2 to 3 round trips with a server to establish a secure connection before the browser can request the actual web page. QUIC is designed so that if a client has talked to a given server before, it can can start sending data without any round trips, which makes web pages load faster. The data shows that 75% percent of connections can take advantage of QUIC’s zero-round-trip feature. Even on a well-optimized site like Google Search, where connections are often pre-established, we still see a 3% improvement in mean page load time with QUIC." From https://www.chromium.org/quic: "Key features of QUIC over existing TCP+TLS+SPDY include * Dramatically reduced connection establishment time * Improved congestion control * Multiplexing without head of line blocking * Forward error correction * Connection migration" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC |