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> Care to comment about the debugbear benchmarks? Why is the supposed undue overhead as per SpeeDOMeter not showing up in there? I'm not familiar with what you
by om2 6y ago
> Care to comment about the debugbear benchmarks? Why is the supposed undue overhead as per SpeeDOMeter not showing up in there?
I'm not familiar with what you mean by debugbear benchmarks. If you mean the content linked here: https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1273263792785326085 https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1273263792785326085
Then my explanation would be that these measurements measure different things than Speedometer. CPU time is a power metric, First Contentful Paint is a page load speed metric, memory is a memory metric, none of these are web app responsiveness measurements. All of these data points can be true at the same time!
Personally, I would expect any content blocker that does a lot of blocking to speed up page load, reduce memory use, and save power, because less stuff loads and less stuff gets processed. That any ad blocker would reduce Speedometer score is kind of a surprise to me, but if it's real, I believe it.
I really have no stake in which ad blocker is best or more efficient. I just wanted to clarify what Speedometer does, and why it's a relevant measurement.