I think we need to be careful about claiming its more efficient. There seemed to be significant disagreement about how much more efficient SPDY was last year from the various different benchmarks. From memory the consensus seemed to be that its only 5-10% quicker. Does anyone have any more up to day benchmarks?

I hate the idea that you would have to be a "web profesional" in order to get started today. We should embrace and keep the culture the web was built on.