View Poll Results: Do your websites currently support HTTP/2?

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  • All of my websites currently support HTTP/2.

    4 66.67%
  • Some of my websites currently support HTTP/2.

    0 0%
  • None of my websites currently support HTTP/2 but I plan to add such support within the next six months.

    2 33.33%
  • None of my websites currently support HTTP/2 but I plan to add such support within the next year.

    0 0%
  • None of my websites currently support HTTP/2 but I plan to eventually add such support.

    0 0%
  • None of my websites currently support HTTP/2 and I have no plans to add such support in the future.

    0 0%
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    Question Do your websites currently support HTTP/2?

    HTTP/2 is a major revision of the HTTP protocol that was published as RFC 7540 on 14 May 2015. According to Wikipedia, as of October 2021, 47% of the top 10 million websites supported HTTP/2.

    HTTP2 was designed to bring significant improvement in efficiency, speed and security and is supported by most modern web browsers. Some of the improvements include:

    • HTTP/2 is binary, instead of textual.
    • It is fully multiplexed, sending multiple requests in parallel over a single TCP connection.
    • It uses header compression HPACK to reduce overhead.
    • It allows servers to “push” responses proactively into client caches instead of waiting for a new request for each resource
    • It uses the new ALPN extension which allows for faster-encrypted connections since the application protocol is determined during the initial connection.
    • It reduces additional round trip times (RTT), making your website load faster without any optimization.


    There are a number of sites that provide tests to determine if a site supports HTTP/2. Here is one:

    tools.keycdn.com/http2-test

    On 17 September 2021 Google made the following announcement in the Google Search Central Blog:

    Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2

    Google states there is no ranking benefit to a site being crawled using HTTP/2.

    But that doesn't mean any performance benefits to a site from supporting HTTP/2 won't benefit a site's rank.

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    Just checked my website and it supports the protocols. Also, if you are interested in your website's security, I recommend you to look into HSTS preloading which is related to HTTPS protocols.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CatalinAMG View Post
    Also, if you are interested in your website's security, I recommend you to look into HSTS preloading which is related to HTTPS protocols.
    There is a discussion of the HSTS preload list here:

    Are any of your sites on the https preload list?

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