Will HTTPS slow down page loads of my web application?

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Matthew picture Matthew · Dec 11, 2011 · Viewed 8.4k times · Source

Will SSL Encryption slow down page load? If so, how do I estimate the impact on performance for my web application?

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ziesemer picture ziesemer · Dec 11, 2011

This is a possible duplicate of several questions:

The last includes this answer, including: "non-SSL sockets are less than 10 times faster than SSL sockets". However, this can be a bit misleading - be sure to read the entire answer.

You can also mitigate the performance concern, at least on the server-side, by offloading the SSL processing to another device, e.g. a dedicated load balancer or firewall.

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