Posted 25 December 2014 - 09:56 PM
#11
HTTPS generates approximately 1.8X the data as HTTP due to the encryption. This is probably barely noticeable on an Ethernet or wireless network. However, on a low processing speed device (like phone or tablet) and a poor data connection like LTE or other data plans, the difference in user-perceived performance is significant. Remember, the client (the device displaying the page) has to not only read all the additional data over the network, it has to store it in memory and then unencrypt it before it can process the html. You can change the underlying protocols (of which the newer ones are geared toward https) but you can't get around the physics.
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