Any idea how HTTPS manages to have a significantly higher throughput? At first blush this doesn't quite pass the sniff test - it looks like there's another factor in play here.
That's probably because the response to this particular https URL is larger; http on this server simply redirects to https and is therefore a smaller response.
Not that this matters here; the top level comment measured requests per second, not bytes per second. If anything, the smaller response for http would give http an advantage in this comparison.
Not that this matters here; the top level comment measured requests per second, not bytes per second. If anything, the smaller response for http would give http an advantage in this comparison.