http/2 and PW

[benbyf]

HELLO! Is anyone running a http/2 setup in production yet and have any strategies / experiences they can share?

I'm currently running on Ubuntu with DigitalOcean | nginx with serverpilot.io (and they now offer https/2 support)

[jacmaes]

I also have an Ubuntu droplet on Digital Ocean. After setting up the free Let's Encrypt SSL certificates, I have activated http/2 and everything runs smoothly. I haven't tweaked my sites to take full advantage of http/2, or run benchmarks to measure improvements though. 

[benbyf]

no before and after benchmarks with pingdom, google page speed or anything like that? I'm also wondering about how my css/jss asset work flow would work with http/2 as I've read it benfits most when assets are seperated and not concaternated (like using AIOM module). https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/02/getting-ready-for-http2/#concatenating-css-and-javascript

[Sergio]

I'm also running it on Digital Ocean, using forge.laravel.com panel to config Let's Encrypt and everthing else #lazyweb

So far so good. 

Didn't fully tested it yet because the project is in alpha state but it looks great so far on a quick webpagetest run. 

And yes, you must avoid concatenation of all files as your request will be bigger than it needs to be depending on your page.

Basically, forget almost all you learned about http connection optimizations.

Read: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/02/getting-ready-for-http2/

[gurkendoktor]

I have my company website running with http/2 on DO with nginx. I didn't use concatenation or any frontend asset post-processing, as the CSS is quite small and the gzipping is done by the server. 

[benbyf]

I've just run some tests using HTTPS/2 and added the results and more information in an article here: http://benbyford.com/articles/https-2-for-web-designers/