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Perhaps you've heard of HTTP/2? It's not just an idea, it's a real technology and slowly but surely, hosting companies and CDN services have been releasing it to their servers. Much has been said about the benefits of using HTTP/2 instead of HTTP1.x, but the proof the the pudding is in the eating.

Today we're going to perform a few real-world tests, perform some timings and see what results we can extract out of all this.

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If you’ve been working around web development for a while, you’ll know that the web has a need for speed. The truth is simple: speed matters and faster is considered better.

One "easy win" for increasing performance is using a CDN. We’ve discussed this several times at CSS-Tricks. It's easy in that you aren't rewriting a codebase or hand-editing content, but it's an area of performance many of us might overlook because, well, hosting, servers and cPanels, oh my!

Thankfully, the process for integrating a CDN does not have to be hard. (more…)

At the agency I work for, we recently put all ~1,100 of our sites behind a CDN. It seems to be working. Unfortunately, I have no idea why or how we did this. Therefore, in the first part of this article, I force our CTO, Joshua Lynch, to explain the process to me. This has the unintended consequence of Josh suggesting I try this on my own website, a process I'll narrate for the second half of the article.

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