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Man I hate analysis like these. At least yours isn't as flawed as that guy on reddit who didn't understand the difference between a Watt and a Joule (or kWhr),

Man I hate analysis like these. At least yours isn't as flawed as that guy on reddit who didn't understand the difference between a Watt and a Joule (or kWhr), but what you did is still incredibly basic and ineffective. You aren't accounting for reddit simply frontloading the first page view, compared to old reddit reloading pages each link you click, or countless other possible optimizations. Just measuring single page-loads using a browser extension is far to simplistic of a metric.

nonbel 8y ago
>"Just measuring single page-loads using a browser extension is far to simplistic of a metric." All I know is the site has become almost unusable on an old tablet I have, it sits on a loading screen for tens of seconds before loading some simple text content. So whatever they are doing is not very efficient. I'd love to see better analyses along these lines though. How many TWh per year on pron, how many on netflix/streaming video, how many on drinking/partying. There's all sorts of unnecessary stuff we have no intuition for.