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> Cheap to explore: Exploring the web should be pleasant on 1W of power. Why are we measuring power draw? Yeah your website can be intense enough to draw more
by RetroTechie 3y ago
> Cheap to explore: Exploring the web should be pleasant on 1W of power.
Why are we measuring power draw? Yeah your website can be intense enough to draw more power, but this just seems like an odd metric.
Regardless how you'd measure it, a pretty useful metric imho. A nice catch-all encompassing:
Complexity of a website + efficiency of common software implementations + efficiency of common hardware platforms.
Any content that requires a 'beefy' setup on client side to view (or consumes a lot of power doing so), automatically cuts a large chunk of potential audience.
- graypegg 3y agoThat is a fair point, maybe I'm thinking to concretely about it. Was imagining getting a kill-a-watt power meter, and making sure my OS + browser + a website is drawing less than 1W from the wall. What you're saying as a more all-encompassing "efficiency in general" metric makes sense.