The emerging consensus in the Web performance community is that TLS record size is an important factor for performance -- especially in HTTP/2 and SPDY, which are multiplexed. Apache should make the record size configurable. Eventually, it'll probably be desirable to have it become dynamically tuned based upon connection status/parameters (e.g., in a module), but a static configuration directive would be a good first step. See: * https://istlsfastyet.com/#server-performance * http://www.igvita.com/2013/10/24/optimizing-tls-record-size-and-buffering-latency/