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		mike_d on Aug 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The 5-Hour CDN HTTP/2 prioritization is a lot of hype for a theoretical feature that yields little real world performance. When a client is rendering a page, it knows what it needs in what order to minimize blocking. The server doesn't.

youngtaff on Aug 4, 2021 [–]

Yes, which is why the browser send priorities with the requests but many servers ignore these and just server responses in what ever order suits them.

If a low priority response is served before a high priority one the page is likely to be slower to render etc.

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