QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is a next generation internet protocol developed by and in use across most of Google’s services. It improves upon HTTP\/2 by reducing the time it takes to begin serving content.<\/p>\n
By replacing TCP with UDP, and encrypting the majority of its payload, QUIC shortens the handshake process by a factor of two or three, all while maintaining data security. <\/end technical mumbo jumbo><\/p>\n
Today you can use QUIC on more than just Gmail as it is now available to all Varial Hosting customers!<\/p>\n
To start using QUIC your website just needs to be accessed over HTTPS from a supported browser.<\/p>\n
That’s all there is to it! Enjoy faster page loading times!<\/p>\n
QUIC is enabled by default in Google’s Chrome browser and support has been recently added to the Opera browser as an optional setting.<\/p>\n
(Please note that QUIC is not yet supported on websites that have the CloudFlare content delivery network enabled.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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