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by PudgePacket 2253 days ago
Based on Google's earlier testing HTTP/3 excels in poor-performing networks where dropped packets are more likely or more costly. Cloudflare's blog didn't mention this point at all.

> On a well-optimized site like Google Search, connections are often pre-established, so QUIC’s faster connections can only speed up some requests—but QUIC still improves mean page load time by 8% globally, and up to 13% in regions where latency is higher.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/06/Introducing-QUI...

Another summary: https://kinsta.com/blog/http3/

Older Cloudflare blog: https://blog.cloudflare.com/http3-the-past-present-and-futur...