What are the advantages of HTTP/2 compared to HTTP/1?

Multiplexing: Allows multiple requests to be sent and responses received simultaneously over a single TCP connection. This eliminates the head-of-line blocking problem in HTTP/1.

Header compression (HPACK): Compresses HTTP request and response headers using a dynamic indexing table and Huffman encoding. Reduces the amount of data transmitted.

Server Push: The server can send resources to the client that it anticipates will be needed to render the current page, even before the client explicitly requests them. Reduces page load time.

Binary protocol: HTTP/2 operates at the frame level in a binary format, making it more efficient for parsing and processing for both clients and servers compared to the text-based HTTP/1.

Stream prioritization: The client can specify priorities for different streams (requests/responses), allowing the server to optimize resource delivery.

Flow control: Allows controlling the amount of data that can be sent on a particular stream, preventing buffer overloads at the receiver.