Google Chrome has many built-in tools to allow users to better understand the internals of how a page is fetched and rendered.

Google is also set to redefine how web resources are accessed. After pursuing the HTTP 2.0 and making it a standard, Google is now changing Chrome to use the QUIC protocol, which may also someday become a standard.

Watch these talks for additional details:

In order to better understand what protocol Chrome is using to talk to a web server, you can use the following tool:

And Chrome also has many more built-in tools, to get a complete list, see: