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Re:Why is the Internet so Slow? by jstanley on Friday June 23, 2017 @06:55AM (#14618235)
I just tried this and was unable to measure any difference.

Variation in page load times far outweighed any difference the config change might have brought.

So, YMMV.

From a theoretical standpoint I agree http/2 should help (although in practice I didn't measure any difference). I can't see why tcp_nodelay would help except in extremely niche applications (sending tiny responses with lots of pauses?)

Re:Why is the Internet so Slow? by DamonHD on Friday June 23, 2017 @11:44AM (#14619976)
My evidence is that HTTP/2 doesn't help much if at all for lightweight sites, especially if the site manages to hit my target of the first 10kB hitting the client rendering all the above-the-fold information, and especially if the clients are reasonably close to the server.

Indeed, given that HTTP/2 forces TLS (for any mainstream browser) which forces an extra RTT, for light pages my evidence is that HTTP/2 makes things marginally worse...

http://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-carbon-cost-of-CDN.html