An Early Benchmark of Quality of Experience Between HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 using Lighthouse

Saif, Darius; Lung, Chung-Horng; Matrawy, Ashraf

doi:10.48550/arxiv.2004.01978

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“…Given its recent conception, few works already targeted HTTP/3. Saif et al [8] run experiments controlling both client and server accessing a single web page. They study the effect of delay, packet loss and throughput but do not measure any major impact on performance.…”

Section: B Related Workmentioning

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Measuring HTTP/3: Adoption and Performance

Trevisan,

Giordano,

Drago

et al. 2021

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The third version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is currently in its final standardization phase by the IETF. Besides better security and increased flexibility, it promises benefits in terms of performance. HTTP/3 adopts a more efficient header compression schema and replaces TCP with QUIC, a transport protocol carried over UDP, originally proposed by Google and currently under standardization too. Although HTTP/3 early implementations already exist and some websites announce its support, it has been subject to few studies.In this work, we provide a first measurement study on HTTP/3. We testify how, during 2020, it has been adopted by some of the leading Internet companies such as Google, Facebook and Cloudflare. We run a large-scale measurement campaign toward thousands of websites adopting HTTP/3, aiming at understanding to what extent it achieves better performance than HTTP/2. We find that adopting websites often host most web page objects on third-party servers, which support only HTTP/2 or even HTTP/1.1. Our experiments show that HTTP/3 provides sizable benefits only in scenarios with high latency or very poor bandwidth. Despite the adoption of QUIC, we do not find benefits in case of high packet loss, but we observe large diversity across website providers' infrastructures.

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Section: B Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%