diff --git a/lighthouse-core/lib/network-recorder.js b/lighthouse-core/lib/network-recorder.js
index 5df4dab88056..d37b069fe0a8 100644
--- a/lighthouse-core/lib/network-recorder.js
+++ b/lighthouse-core/lib/network-recorder.js
@@ -89,6 +89,19 @@ class NetworkRecorder extends EventEmitter {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * QUIC network requests don't always "finish" even when they're done loading data, use recievedHeaders
+   * @see https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/issues/5254
+   * @param {LH.WebInspector.NetworkRequest} record
+   * @return {boolean}
+   */
+  static _isQUICAndFinished(record) {
+    const isQUIC = record._responseHeaders && record._responseHeaders
+        .some(header => header.name.toLowerCase() === 'alt-svc' && /quic/.test(header.value));
+    const receivedHeaders = record._timing && record._timing.receiveHeadersEnd > 0;
+    return !!(isQUIC && receivedHeaders && record.endTime);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Finds all time periods where the number of inflight requests is less than or equal to the
    * number of allowed concurrent requests.
@@ -109,7 +122,7 @@ class NetworkRecorder extends EventEmitter {
 
       // convert the network record timestamp to ms
       timeBoundaries.push({time: record.startTime * 1000, isStart: true});
-      if (record.finished) {
+      if (record.finished || NetworkRecorder._isQUICAndFinished(record)) {
         timeBoundaries.push({time: record.endTime * 1000, isStart: false});
       }
     });
@@ -143,7 +156,7 @@ class NetworkRecorder extends EventEmitter {
       quietPeriods.push({start: quietPeriodStart, end: endTime});
     }
 
-    return quietPeriods;
+    return quietPeriods.filter(period => period.start !== period.end);
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/lighthouse-core/test/gather/network-recorder-test.js b/lighthouse-core/test/gather/network-recorder-test.js
index 8a0a4b54713a..2aadd9bb6376 100644
--- a/lighthouse-core/test/gather/network-recorder-test.js
+++ b/lighthouse-core/test/gather/network-recorder-test.js
@@ -16,4 +16,96 @@ describe('network recorder', function() {
     const records = NetworkRecorder.recordsFromLogs(devtoolsLogItems);
     assert.equal(records.length, 76);
   });
+
+  describe('#findNetworkQuietPeriods', () => {
+    function record(data) {
+      const url = data.url || 'https://example.com';
+      const scheme = url.split(':')[0];
+      return Object.assign({
+        url,
+        finished: !!data.endTime,
+        parsedURL: {scheme},
+      }, data);
+    }
+
+    it('should find the 0-quiet periods', () => {
+      const records = [
+        record({startTime: 0, endTime: 1}),
+        record({startTime: 2, endTime: 3}),
+        record({startTime: 4, endTime: 5}),
+      ];
+
+      const periods = NetworkRecorder.findNetworkQuietPeriods(records, 0);
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(periods, [
+        {start: 1000, end: 2000},
+        {start: 3000, end: 4000},
+        {start: 5000, end: Infinity},
+      ]);
+    });
+
+    it('should find the 2-quiet periods', () => {
+      const records = [
+        record({startTime: 0, endTime: 1.5}),
+        record({startTime: 0, endTime: 2}),
+        record({startTime: 0, endTime: 2.5}),
+        record({startTime: 2, endTime: 3}),
+        record({startTime: 4, endTime: 5}),
+      ];
+
+      const periods = NetworkRecorder.findNetworkQuietPeriods(records, 2);
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(periods, [
+        {start: 1500, end: Infinity},
+      ]);
+    });
+
+    it('should handle unfinished requests', () => {
+      const records = [
+        record({startTime: 0, endTime: 1.5}),
+        record({startTime: 0, endTime: 2}),
+        record({startTime: 0, endTime: 2.5}),
+        record({startTime: 2, endTime: 3}),
+        record({startTime: 2}),
+        record({startTime: 2}),
+        record({startTime: 4, endTime: 5}),
+        record({startTime: 5.5}),
+      ];
+
+      const periods = NetworkRecorder.findNetworkQuietPeriods(records, 2);
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(periods, [
+        {start: 1500, end: 2000},
+        {start: 3000, end: 4000},
+        {start: 5000, end: 5500},
+      ]);
+    });
+
+    it('should ignore data URIs', () => {
+      const records = [
+        record({startTime: 0, endTime: 1}),
+        record({startTime: 0, endTime: 2, url: 'data:image/png;base64,'}),
+      ];
+
+      const periods = NetworkRecorder.findNetworkQuietPeriods(records, 0);
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(periods, [
+        {start: 1000, end: Infinity},
+      ]);
+    });
+
+    it('should handle QUIC requests', () => {
+      const quicRequest = {
+        finished: false,
+        _responseHeaders: [{name: 'ALT-SVC', value: 'hq=":49288";quic="1,1abadaba,51303334,0"'}],
+        _timing: {receiveHeadersEnd: 1.28},
+      };
+
+      const records = [
+        record({startTime: 0, endTime: 1}),
+        record({startTime: 0, endTime: 2, ...quicRequest}),
+      ];
+
+      const periods = NetworkRecorder.findNetworkQuietPeriods(records, 0);
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(periods, [
+        {start: 2000, end: Infinity},
+      ]);
+    });
+  });
 });