A Study of HTTP/2’s Server Push Performance Potential

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> Server push adoption has been slow [10], [17], and we suspect that will remain the case in the foreseeable future.

This seems likely, especially as Google has already removed server push from Chrome...

Yep, server push is dead, as it was often misused and harming perf, and maintaining it was complex and not worth it, IIRC. It's also not playing well with caching, resulting in over-sending things that are possibly in cache.

On the other hand, "Early Hints" are the future. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/early-hints/

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