title: Popular Free SSL Adds 200% delay to an otherwise lightning fast website
body: <p>This question focusses on easy, practical (free/budget) solution to speed up the SSL connection of <strong>an already lightning fast wesite</strong> averaging 50ms for all elements, <strong>except for the SSL</strong> which tripples the loading time.</p>
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  <p><em>Printscreen is from this <a href="http://sitespeed.me/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">speedtester</a> whose results appear reproducable therefore reliable.<br />
  It will be used to test the answer(s) below to see if they can relieve the SSL bottleneck.</em></p>
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  <p><strong>Scope of this qestion:</strong><br />
  i. Very fast websites on optimized servers averaging <strong>50ms</strong> page load if not for the SSL delay.<br />
  ii. Websites where SSL adds a significant delay, doubling or even <strong>trippling</strong> total loadtime.<br />
  iii. Embracing pratical methods to reduce the SSL delay in these situations.<br />
  iv. Aware of the comprehensive questions and answers like <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1216428/ssl-speed-128-vs-256-bit">1</a>, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4246127/increasing-ssl-handshaking-performance">2</a>, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/36681069/509670">3</a> and many others.</p>
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  <p><strong>Questions:</strong><br />
  <strong>1</strong>.Whats the first step, to speed up the SSL on an otherwise lightning fast website?<br />
  <strong>2</strong>.Will a paid budget SSL (e.g. Comodo EV SSL 8$/year) be any faster than a Let's Encrypt SSL?<br />
  <strong>3</strong>.Which online tools provide a detailed zoom-in, in to the SSL portion of a website?<br />
  <strong>4</strong>.I suspect our current Let's Encrypt key is 4096 bits (overkill for our website) but on our admin panel shared hosting it seems the 2048 bit version is removed and not available to select anymore. Is there any other way to replace and or enfore the lighter 2048 bit Let's Encrypt key?</p>
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  <p><em>Thank you! Any and all practical (for the general public easy to understand) SSL analysis-tools and or speed-enhancement-tips will be considered as possible answers to this question!</em></p>