Go: Building Web Applications

Implementing HTTP/2

One of the more interesting, perhaps noble, initiatives that Google has invested in within the last five years has been a focus on making the Web faster. Through tools, such as PageSpeed, Google has sought to push the Web as a whole to be faster, leaner, and more user-friendly.

No doubt this initiative is not entirely altruistic. Google has built their business on extensive web search and crawlers are always at the mercy of the speed of the pages they crawl. The faster the web pages, the faster and more comprehensive is the crawling; therefore, less time and less infrastructure resulting in less money required. The bottom line here is that a faster web benefits Google, as much as it does people creating and viewing web sites. ...