{"id":108,"date":"2019-12-16T11:23:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T10:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=108"},"modified":"2026-03-24T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:40:22","slug":"activate-http-2","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/kb\/activate-http-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Activate HTTP\/2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HTTP\/2 is an improved version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, better known as HTTP.<\/p>\n<h4>IN THIS ARTICLE<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#plus\">What is the advantage of HTTP\/2?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#activate\">How do I activate HTTP\/2?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"plus\">What is the advantage of HTTP\/2?<\/h2>\n<p>Switching to HTTP \/ 2 makes the traffic between your website (server) and the browsers a lot smoother. The result?\u00a0<strong>Faster loading times for your website visitors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Specifically, HTTP \/ 2 makes multitasking possible between the server and the browsers.<br \/>\nIn addition, it adds &#8220;server push&#8221;. With this, the server anticipates the data that the browser needs and offers it proactively.<\/p>\n<p>HTTP \/ 2 works in all current browsers: Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Edge and Amazon Silk.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"activate\">How do I activate HTTP\/2?<\/h2>\n<p>To activate HTTP\/2 on your web hosting you must first activate an SSL certificate on your web hosting. Our hosting packages come standard with a Let&#8217;s Encrypt certificate.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/kb\/install-a-free-ssl-certificate-with-lets-encrypt\/\">Read how to activate the free SSL certificate<\/a> \u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/kb\/install-an-ssl-certificate\/\">install a SSL certificate yourself<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow these steps in the <a href=\"https:\/\/my.combell.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">control panel<\/a> to activate HTTP\/2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to &#8220;My products&#8221;&gt; &#8220;Web hosting&#8221;&gt; Your domain name.<\/li>\n<li>In the menu on the left you choose &#8220;Websites &amp; SSL&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>On the right, click on &#8220;Manage website&#8221; and choose &#8220;SSL settings&#8221; in the dropdown.<\/li>\n<li>Activate HTTP\/2 by clicking the slider.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Do you have a web developer? Be sure to inform him about this change so that he will use all the possibilities of HTTP\/2 in the future.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-10-13-at-15.44.07.png\" alt=\"activate HTTP\/2 \" width=\"2264\" height=\"906\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HTTP\/2 is an improved version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, better known as HTTP. IN THIS ARTICLE What is the advantage of HTTP\/2? How do I activate HTTP\/2? What is the advantage of HTTP\/2? Switching to HTTP \/ 2 makes the traffic between your website (server) and the browsers a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[57,4],"ht-kb-tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4537,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/108\/revisions\/4537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}