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[NDC London] HTTP: History & Performance

Ana Balica
January 18, 2018

[NDC London] HTTP: History & Performance

NDC London 2018 talk

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol is one of the most popular protocols nowadays. It’s the language most servers, clients, and even teapots can speak. Learn how and why it became such an ubiquitous part of the web by following the evolution of HTTP.

In regards to web performance, have you ever wondered why are we using minimization, concatenation, image spriting, resource inlining and other little hacks? Befriend the browser and help it to help you deliver the best user experience possible. Find out how TLS and HTTPS affect performance and what to look forward in HTTP/2.

This talk will contain references to archaic RFCs, lots of diagrams and long lists of best practices.

Ana Balica

January 18, 2018
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  1. 㱺 telnet stallman.org 80 Trying xxx.xxx.xx.xxx... Connected to stallman.org. Escape

    character is '^]'. GET / <!DOCTYPE html> <html>...</html> Connection closed by foreign host.
  2. Client request - single ASCII char string terminated by a

    single CRLF Server response - ASCII char stream in HTML Connection closed after transfer complete GET method only Metadata? Never heard of that. What is content negotiation?
  3. 㱺 curl -v0 https://twitter.com * Connected to twitter.com port 443

    (#0) > GET / HTTP/1.0 > Host: twitter.com > User-Agent: curl/7.43.0 > Accept: */* > < HTTP/1.0 200 OK < content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8 < pragma: no-cache < <!DOCTYPE html> <html>...</html> * Closing connection 0
  4. Request may have newline separated headers Request includes HTTP version

    Connection closed after transfer complete And lots of other goodies... Response has its own newline separated headers Not limited to hypertext
  5. TCP-30ms SYN 0ms SYN ACK 15ms 45ms 35ms response 80ms

    HTTP-65ms close connection 95ms GET / 30ms ACK
  6. TCP-30ms TLS-60ms 30ms SYN 0ms SYN ACK 15ms ACK ClientHello

    45ms ServerHello Certificate ServerHelloDone ClientKeyExchange ChangeCipherSpec Finished 60ms 75ms ChangeCipherSpec Finished Application data 90ms
  7. TCP-30ms 30ms SYN 0ms SYN ACK 15ms ACK ClientHello 45ms

    ServerHello ChangeCipherSpec Finished 60ms ChangeCipherSpec Finished Application data Application data TLS-30ms
  8. 21 requests ~2.7s 2,655ms => twitter.com homepage over HTTP/1.0 with

    TLS handshake for first connection and TLS session resumption for all consequent requests
  9. 100 requests 12.5s => 12,530ms with TLS handshake for first

    connection and TLS session resumption for all consequent requests modern average page over HTTP/1.0
  10. 㱺 curl -v https://github.com > GET / HTTP/1.1 > Host:

    github.com > User-Agent: curl/7.43.0 > Accept: */* > < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Transfer-Encoding: chunked < Cache-Control: no-cache < { [1370 bytes data] * Connection #0 to host github.com left intact
  11. 㱺 curl -v -H "Range: bytes=0-1024” https://assets-cdn.github.com/../Octocat.png < HTTP/1.1 206

    Partial Content < Cache-Control: max-age=31536000, public < Age: 2165764 < Content-Type: image/png < Content-Range: bytes 0-1024/35407 < Content-Length: 1025 < Connection: keep-alive < { [1025 bytes data] * Connection #0 to host left intact
  12. TCP-30ms GET /js 95ms 20ms 110ms JS response 130ms HTTP

    SYN 0ms SYN ACK 15ms 30ms ACK 45ms 35ms HTML response 80ms GET /
  13. 21 requests ~1.5s 1,425ms => Single connection with a TLS

    handshake twitter.com homepage over HTTP/1.1
  14. GET /js 95ms 20ms 110ms JS response 130ms SYN 0ms

    SYN ACK 15ms 30ms ACK 45ms 35ms HTML response 80ms GET /
  15. GET /js 95ms 20ms 110ms JS response 130ms SYN 0ms

    SYN ACK 15ms 30ms ACK 45ms 35ms HTML response 80ms GET /
  16. 45ms 35ms 20ms JS response HTML response 80ms SYN 0ms

    SYN ACK 15ms ACK 30ms GET /js GET /
  17. // webpack.config.js module.exports = { entry: ['./one.js', './two.js'], output: {

    filename: 'bundle.js' }, plugins: [ new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin(), ] };
  18. h2

  19. PUT /books/123/ HTTP/1.1 Host: www.example.com Content-Type: application/json Content-Length: 35 {“author”:

    “George Orwell”} HTTP/1.1 HEADERS frame HTTP/2 DATA frame SETTINGS frame PING frame GOAWAY frame ...
  20. Stream prioritization Each stream may another stream and be dependent

    on between 1 and 256 have a weight Flow control Each receiver can set entire connection for each stream or desired window size
  21. GET /index.html stream 1 stream 1 Response stream 2 PUSH_PROMISE

    /script.js stream 3 PUSH_PROMISE /style.css 2 3 1
  22. 61 commonly used HTTP headers Static Table Dynamic Table Static

    Huffman Encoding + initially empty, consists of headers headers not yet indexed, are encoded using a code statistically obtained on a large sample of HTTP headers
  23. +------------------------------------+ | :method| GET | +------------------------------------+ | :scheme| https |

    +------------------------------------+ | :host| www.example.com | +------------------------------------+ | :path| / | +------------------------------------+ | :accept| */* | +------------------------------------+ | :user-agent| Mozilla/5.0... | +------------------------------------+ | :cookie| ... | +------------------------------------+ | :x-requested-with| XMLHttpRequest | +------------------------------------+ Request #1
  24. +------------------------------------+ | :method| GET | +------------------------------------+ | :scheme| https |

    +------------------------------------+ | :host| www.example.com | +------------------------------------+ | :path| / | +------------------------------------+ | :accept| */* | +------------------------------------+ | :user-agent| Mozilla/5.0... | +------------------------------------+ | :cookie| ... | +------------------------------------+ | :x-requested-with| XMLHttpRequest | +------------------------------------+ Request #1 with HPACK 1byte 1byte 1byte++ 1byte 1byte++ 1byte++ 1byte++ +++
  25. +------------------------------------+ | | | +------------------------------------+ | | | +------------------------------------+ |

    | www.example.com | +------------------------------------+ | | | +------------------------------------+ | | */* | +------------------------------------+ | | Mozilla/5.0... | +------------------------------------+ | | ... | +------------------------------------+ | :x-requested-with| XMLHttpRequest | +------------------------------------+ Request #1 with HPACK Encoded with a static Huffman code
  26. +------------------------------------+ | | | +------------------------------------+ | | | +------------------------------------+ |

    :host| www.example.com | +------------------------------------+ | | | +------------------------------------+ | :accept| */* | +------------------------------------+ | :user-agent| Mozilla/5.0... | +------------------------------------+ | :cookie| ... | +------------------------------------+ | :x-requested-with| XMLHttpRequest | +------------------------------------+ Request #1 with HPACK Saved in the dynamic table
  27. +------------------------------------+ | :method| GET | +------------------------------------+ | :scheme| https |

    +------------------------------------+ | :host| www.example.com | +------------------------------------+ | :path| /cat.jpg | +------------------------------------+ | :accept| image/jpeg | +------------------------------------+ | :user-agent| Mozilla/5.0... | +------------------------------------+ | :cookie| ... | +------------------------------------+ | :x-requested-with| XMLHttpRequest | +------------------------------------+ Request #2 with HPACK 1byte 1byte 1byte 1byte++ 1byte++ 1byte 1byte 1byte
  28. 6 connections per origin image sprites naive concatenation of assets

    inlining of resources ✖ * ✖ * domain sharding ✖
  29. smart caching compress assets reduce header bytes fine-tuned TCP stack

    use CDNs eliminate unnecessary resources ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
  30. Median loadEvent (ms) 0 1250 2500 3750 5000 RTT (latency)

    0 100 200 300 400 500 H1 H2 Impact of latency and HTTP/2 at ft.com Chart replicated based on statistics taken from next.ft.com, March 2016
  31. 70% 30% HTTP/2 HTTP/1.1 Traffic stats Feb 2017 from Mozilla

    40% 60% 88% 12% All traffic HTTPS traffic only Top 10M websites
  32. Percentile 0 25 50 75 100 Document complete time (onload)

    (ms) 2140 2150 2160 2200 2225 2240 2250 2260 2265 2300 2310 2340 2390 2450 H1 H2 Test with 0.0% PLR by fastly Browser: Firefox; 5000/1000 KBPS; 40ms latency, 0.0%PLR
  33. Percentile 0 25 50 75 100 Document complete time (onload)

    (ms) 2300 2500 2800 2900 3000 3600 5000 5600 5700 7000 8300 H1 H2 Test with 2.0% PLR by fastly Browser: Firefox; 5000/1000 KBPS; 40ms latency, 2.0%PLR