WQI.web​qualityindex

Performance

HTTP/3

QUIC-over-UDP transport. Faster handshakes and resilience to packet loss on flaky networks. Increasingly standard at the CDN layer.

Authority
IETF
Version
RFC 9114
Jurisdiction
Global
Source
datatracker.ietf.org
Last reviewed
2026-04-28
Last verified
pending

What it is

HTTP semantics over QUIC, which is built on UDP rather than TCP. Eliminates head-of-line blocking, recovers faster from packet loss, and combines TLS handshake into transport setup.

Why it matters

Real-world wins on mobile, lossy networks, and high-latency users. Cloudflare, Fastly, and CloudFront support it with a single toggle.

Who it applies to

Sites with mobile-heavy or international audiences.

How WQI scores it

Web Quality Index considers this standard satisfied when the supporting factor passes.

# Factor Status
30 HTTP/3 support planned

0 of 1 supporting factors are currently collected. Sites where the remaining 1 haven't been measured will show as partial or unknown on this standard until the data lands.

Related standards

Supersedes
HTTP/2
See also
HTTP/2

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