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One thing I do when I benchmark is to provide all details so that other people can try to reproduce -- anybody can investigate the figures I report. There is n
by gorhill 11y ago
One thing I do when I benchmark is to provide all details so that other people can try to reproduce -- anybody can investigate the figures I report.
There is not enough details for me to reproduce here: no sample of which web pages were used in the benchmark, no work on settings used on various blockers. Why is it so difficult to obtain such key information?
I really doubt uBlock Origin's ("uBO") default settings were used given the reported timings (because 6s to load a web page).
Also that uBO is reportedly only 0.2 sec faster than ABP hardly make sense to me, especially on any Chromium-based browsers.
In any case, for those who want to make comparisons for themselves between blockers, here are online tools:
To measure average page load speed:
http://www.raymondhill.net/ublock/pageloadspeed.html http://www.raymondhill.net/ublock/pageloadspeed.html
For examples, the page-load-speed tool reports ("Average (valid)" values):
http://www.rollingstone.com/ http://www.rollingstone.com/:
- Opera 37 + native blocker enabled: 1482.75 ms
- Chrome 51 + uBlock Origin + default settings: 1729.20 ms
- Chrome 51 + ABP + EasyList/EasyPrivacy minus "acceptable ads": 2467.17 ms
http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/:
- Opera 37 + native blocker enabled: 1959.10 ms (noticed ad placeholder left behind)
- Chrome 51 + uBlock Origin + default settings: 1316.90 ms
- Chrome 51 + ABP + EasyList/EasyPrivacy minus "acceptable ads": 2063.76 ms
And another tool, to find out what is not blocked (also a rather important aspect of any blocker):
http://raymondhill.net/httpsb/har-parser.html http://raymondhill.net/httpsb/har-parser.html
For example, comparing what was not blocked on TechCrunch with Opera 37 native blocker and uBO + default settings:
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/585534/14185866/b2309870-f749-11e5-8c37-2008e3f2ec10.png https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/585534/14185866/b...