This thesis presents the study of protocol QUIC (Quick UDP Internet
Connections) that was designed by Google in order to speed up Web transport. First
we describe the operation and structure of protocol, then we compare it to protocol
TCP. To evaluate its impact on Web performance, we conduct a series of page load
time measurements in different conditions and compare it to protocols HTTP/1.1 and
HTTP/2.
QUIC provides comparable or better results in most cases, except for transfer of
an average Web page in a lossy network environment, where HTTP/1.1 transfers data
through parallel connections. QUIC improves on amount of data needed to transfer a
Web page, except for single file transfer in a lossless network environment, where both
HTTP versions provide better results.
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