TIL: HTTP/3 Is Not Always Faster Than HTTP/2

Posted by michael-sumner on Thursday August 06, 2026 @05:07AM
from the iankduncan.com dept.

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-10-http3-not-always-faster/

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Re:TIL: HTTP/3 Is Not Always Faster Than HTTP/2 by austin-cheney on Thursday August 06, 2026 @05:38AM (#49194521)

Excellent article. This deserves more attention. The successor to WebSockets, Web Transport, is to be based on HTTP/3 QUIC. I don’t think that will be faster. It’s hard to tell because all my practical experience is with Node.js and Node does not yet have a QUIC library.

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