diff --git a/components/CHANGELOG.md b/components/CHANGELOG.md
index d6e627d9..3a93363e 100644
--- a/components/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/components/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ All Notable changes to `League\Uri\Components` will be documented in this file
 - `Modifier::getIdnUriString`
 - `Modifier::hostToIpv6Compressed`
 - `Modifier::hostToIpv6Expanded`
+- `Scheme::isHttp`
+- `Scheme::isWebsocket`
+- `Scheme::isSsl`
+- `Scheme::isSpecial`
 
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/components/Components/FragmentTest.php b/components/Components/FragmentTest.php
index b436e34a..e3746bf7 100644
--- a/components/Components/FragmentTest.php
+++ b/components/Components/FragmentTest.php
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ public static function getURIProvider(): iterable
             ],
             'PSR-7 URI object with empty string fragment' => [
                 'uri' => Http::new('http://example.com#'),
-                'expected' => '',
+                'expected' => null,
             ],
             'League URI object' => [
                 'uri' => Uri::new('http://example.com#foobar'),
diff --git a/components/Components/QueryTest.php b/components/Components/QueryTest.php
index 1b8f7c6a..7933088d 100644
--- a/components/Components/QueryTest.php
+++ b/components/Components/QueryTest.php
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ public static function getURIProvider(): iterable
             ],
             'PSR-7 URI object with empty string query' => [
                 'uri' => Http::new('http://example.com?'),
-                'expected' => '',
+                'expected' => null,
             ],
             'League URI object' => [
                 'uri' => Uri::new('http://example.com?foo=bar'),
diff --git a/components/Components/Scheme.php b/components/Components/Scheme.php
index 0865895c..cee2248c 100644
--- a/components/Components/Scheme.php
+++ b/components/Components/Scheme.php
@@ -19,12 +19,30 @@
 use Psr\Http\Message\UriInterface as Psr7UriInterface;
 use Stringable;
 
+use function array_key_exists;
+use function in_array;
 use function preg_match;
 use function sprintf;
 use function strtolower;
 
 final class Scheme extends Component
 {
+    /**
+     * Supported schemes and corresponding default port.
+     *
+     * @var array<string, int|null>
+     */
+    private const SCHEME_DEFAULT_PORT = [
+        'data' => null,
+        'file' => null,
+        'ftp' => 21,
+        'gopher' => 70,
+        'http' => 80,
+        'https' => 443,
+        'ws' => 80,
+        'wss' => 443,
+    ];
+
     private const REGEXP_SCHEME = ',^[a-z]([-a-z0-9+.]+)?$,i';
 
     private readonly ?string $scheme;
@@ -34,6 +52,32 @@ private function __construct(Stringable|string|null $scheme)
         $this->scheme = $this->validate($scheme);
     }
 
+    public function isWebsocket(): bool
+    {
+        return in_array($this->scheme, ['ws', 'wss'], true);
+    }
+
+    public function isHttp(): bool
+    {
+        return in_array($this->scheme, ['http', 'https'], true);
+    }
+
+    public function isSsl(): bool
+    {
+        return in_array($this->scheme, ['https', 'wss'], true);
+    }
+
+    public function isSpecial(): bool
+    {
+        return null !== $this->scheme
+            && array_key_exists($this->scheme, self::SCHEME_DEFAULT_PORT);
+    }
+
+    public function defaultPort(): Port
+    {
+        return Port::new(self::SCHEME_DEFAULT_PORT[$this->scheme] ?? null);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Validate a scheme.
      *
@@ -50,7 +94,7 @@ private function validate(Stringable|string|null $scheme): ?string
 
         static $inMemoryCache = [];
         if (isset($inMemoryCache[$fScheme])) {
-            return $inMemoryCache[$fScheme];
+            return $fScheme;
         }
 
         if (1 !== preg_match(self::REGEXP_SCHEME, $fScheme)) {
@@ -60,8 +104,9 @@ private function validate(Stringable|string|null $scheme): ?string
         if (100 < count($inMemoryCache)) {
             unset($inMemoryCache[array_key_first($inMemoryCache)]);
         }
+        $inMemoryCache[$fScheme] = 1;
 
-        return $inMemoryCache[$fScheme] = $fScheme;
+        return $fScheme;
     }
 
     public static function new(Stringable|string|null $value = null): self
@@ -92,7 +137,6 @@ public function getUriComponent(): string
         return $this->value().(null === $this->scheme ? '' : ':');
     }
 
-
     /**
      * DEPRECATION WARNING! This method will be removed in the next major point release.
      *
diff --git a/components/Components/SchemeTest.php b/components/Components/SchemeTest.php
index e6c0a8fd..ad0bebcb 100644
--- a/components/Components/SchemeTest.php
+++ b/components/Components/SchemeTest.php
@@ -106,4 +106,48 @@ public static function getURIProvider(): iterable
             ],
         ];
     }
+
+    #[DataProvider('getSchemeInfoProvider')]
+    public function it_can_detect_information_about_special_schemes(
+        ?string $scheme,
+        bool $isHttp,
+        bool $isSsl,
+        bool $isSpecial,
+        Port $defaultPort,
+    ): void {
+        self::assertSame($isHttp, Scheme::new($scheme)->isHttp());
+        self::assertSame($isSsl, Scheme::new($scheme)->isSsl());
+        self::assertSame($isSpecial, Scheme::new($scheme)->isSpecial());
+        self::assertSame($defaultPort, Scheme::new($scheme)->defaultPort());
+    }
+
+    public static function getSchemeInfoProvider(): \Generator
+    {
+        yield 'detect an HTTP URL' => [
+            'scheme' => 'http',
+            'isHttp' => true,
+            'isWebsocket' => false,
+            'isSsl' => false,
+            'isSpecial' => true,
+            Port::new(80),
+        ];
+
+        yield 'detect an WSS URL' => [
+            'scheme' => 'wss',
+            'isHttp' => false,
+            'isWebsocket' => false,
+            'isSsl' => true,
+            'isSpecial' => true,
+            Port::new(443),
+        ];
+
+        yield 'detect an email URL' => [
+            'scheme' => 'email',
+            'isHttp' => false,
+            'isWebsocket' => false,
+            'isSsl' => false,
+            'isSpecial' => false,
+            Port::new(null),
+        ];
+    }
 }
diff --git a/components/Components/UserInfoTest.php b/components/Components/UserInfoTest.php
index 42258603..42a2adbe 100644
--- a/components/Components/UserInfoTest.php
+++ b/components/Components/UserInfoTest.php
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ public static function getURIProvider(): iterable
             ],
             'PSR-7 URI object with empty string user info' => [
                 'uri' => Http::new('http://@example.com?foo=bar'),
-                'expected' => '',
+                'expected' => null,
             ],
             'League URI object' => [
                 'uri' => Uri::new('http://foo:bar@example.com?foo=bar'),