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It'd be nice if browsers would show an objective, stats-based score when you visit a website on how much bloat there was. Shame bad websites and make them chas
by darknavi 3y ago
It'd be nice if browsers would show an objective, stats-based score when you visit a website on how much bloat there was.
Shame bad websites and make them chase "green" scores.
- bobbylarrybobby 3y agoSpeaking of green, if your browser could tell you “this webpage has consumed X watt-hours of electricity and has cost you $Y in electricity”, that'd be amazing. I think Apple devices could actually do it.
- sublinear 3y agohttps://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/overview/ https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/overview/ Lighthouse is already built into Chrome amongst many other tools. Lighthouse scores are already a factor for search result rankings. The fact of the matter is, those junk sites don't care. Even if these scores were exposed to the user by default instead of hidden away in a dev tool, it's just not a strong enough incentive for those sites to change or users to care. Rankings are more strongly affected by adwords, time-to-first-byte, link juice, etc.
- hoten 3y agoField metrics as measured by the Core Web Vitals / CRUX are a factor in search ranking, not Lighthouse.