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Relevant Blueriq properties

blueriq.web-resources: the location (URL) of additional or overridden webresources

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blueriq.web-resources.cache-period-seconds:the cache period for all static webresources. When null, default behavior is to rely only on 'Last-Modified' header. When 0, caching is disabled. When > 0, the number of seconds to cache a resource client-side (browser). 

HTTP 1.1 versus HTTP 2.0

HTTP 1.1. can only perform one request per connection, resulting in latency, HTTP 2.0 fixes this by introducing mulitplexing, which allows for multiple requests and responses to be handled by a single TCP connection at the same time.

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Websphere: it seems that Websphere currenlty does not support HTTP 2.0 (https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/wiki/Implementations) 

Gzip compression

Enabling HTTP/2 alone can have a significant impact on your site’s performance, but additional best practices such as gzipping assets ensure optimal load times.Static files such as CSS and JS should be compressed by the server before sending them to the browser. This can reduce file sizes by up to 90%, which can significantly reduce the time it takes to download each asset.

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