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why focus on facebook when measuring performance? I thought they have like 10.000 websites they measure

sjroot 8y ago
They state specifically in the article that their chart is based on measurements taken from "several popular websites." Obviously they would want to test Facebook because a lot of people use that website. I'm sure they tested many others as well.
dana321 8y ago
Well.. Facebook runs like a dog, so any improvement is great news.
- rsaarsoo 8y ago
  I consider dogs to be pretty fast :)
  - Skunkleton 8y ago
    Some dogs. Most dogs even. Not my dog. He is a good boy though.
- paulddraper 8y ago
  They should start testing against Gmail then :/
mathias 8y ago
We do indeed measure improvements against more than one website. We wouldn’t want to improve website X while regressing the rest of the internet. See https://v8.dev/blog/real-world-performance https://v8.dev/blog/real-world-performance (from 2016): > We now monitor changes against a test suite of approximately 25 > websites in order to guide V8 optimization. In addition to the > aforementioned websites and others from the Alexa Top 100, we selected > sites which were implemented using common frameworks (React, Polymer, > Angular, Ember, and more), sites from a variety of different geographic > locales, and sites or libraries whose development teams have > collaborated with us, such as Wikipedia, Reddit, Twitter, and webpack. > We believe these 25 sites are representative of the web at large and > that performance improvements to these sites will be directly reflected > in similar speedups for sites being written today by JavaScript > developers.
glenrivard 8y ago
Is the third most popular site in the world behind the two Google sites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites List of most popular websites - Wikipedia

They state specifically in the article that their chart is based on measurements taken from "several popular websites." Obviously they would want to test Facebook because a lot of people use that website. I'm sure they tested many others as well.

dana321 8y ago

Well.. Facebook runs like a dog, so any improvement is great news.

rsaarsoo 8y ago
I consider dogs to be pretty fast :)
- Skunkleton 8y ago
  Some dogs. Most dogs even. Not my dog. He is a good boy though.
paulddraper 8y ago
They should start testing against Gmail then :/

mathias 8y ago

We do indeed measure improvements against more than one website. We wouldn’t want to improve website X while regressing the rest of the internet. See https://v8.dev/blog/real-world-performance https://v8.dev/blog/real-world-performance (from 2016): > We now monitor changes against a test suite of approximately 25 > websites in order to guide V8 optimization. In addition to the > aforementioned websites and others from the Alexa Top 100, we selected > sites which were implemented using common frameworks (React, Polymer, > Angular, Ember, and more), sites from a variety of different geographic > locales, and sites or libraries whose development teams have > collaborated with us, such as Wikipedia, Reddit, Twitter, and webpack. > We believe these 25 sites are representative of the web at large and > that performance improvements to these sites will be directly reflected > in similar speedups for sites being written today by JavaScript > developers.

glenrivard 8y ago

Is the third most popular site in the world behind the two Google sites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites List of most popular websites - Wikipedia