Isn&#x27;t it interesting that even today, after Microsoft Research showed that pipelining could be almost as fast as SPDY and when activating it in Firefox is an about:config away, people <i>still</i> refuse to include it in any tests?<p>Google never showed <i>any</i> results vs pipelining.  They just said &quot;head of line blocking bad&quot; and &quot;one TCP connection per user good&quot; (for tracking) and people just ate it up without evidence because, I suppose, they viewed HTTP&#x2F;2 as conceptually simpler and more elegant.  Nevermind that HTTP&#x2F;2 didn&#x27;t address any criticism that PHK had... that&#x27;s ok because Google was just going to do it anyway.