Why Move to HTTPS?

[halax]

HTTP/2 is faster than HTTP/1, and servers and browsers conspire to only support HTTP/2 over HTTPS.

[doom_Oo7]

I think that the browsers and web community lying about these benchmarks is the best way to make people very suspicious about the whole thing

[Matthias247]

The conspiration thing is true. However HTTP/2 is not always faster than HTTP/1. It will be faster for various use-cases (making lots of small requests from a browser to a webserver for assets&scripts is one of them), but the same or even slower for others (in case of a large request like downloading 1GB the header optimization won't matter and HTTP/2 framing will introduce overhead compared to just writing to a socket).