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- https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202404231317
- Dan Luu's page with the image : https://danluu.com/slow-device/
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There are way too many confounding factors in these tests to say anything about CPU performance for web pages. My only real takeaway is that some of the tested devices suck for browsing the web. How much is the fault of bloated web pages and how much is the fault of the device? Who knows.
Read the original blog post. The slower devices are the biggest devices some parts of the world rely on because they can't afford anything better. This makes them excluded from the "modern" web.
I did. The author talks about both and associates one with the other. It really only talks about 2 factors: web page size and CPU utilization. And that CPU speed hasn't out paced web page bloat. And then uses the data table to try and prove the point.
I'm not denying that low end devices can have trouble browsing the web. I have issue with the claim that CPU performance hasn't scaled with web page bloat because there are far more factors than just CPU performance and web page bloat in the tests, such as: everything else running on the device (OS, other apps, etc) RAM speed and size, storage speed and size (hopefully doesn't come into play but you never know), network connectivity strength, etc.
It's not even close to an "all else equal" type of testing.
Those so-called low-end devices are still technically fairly powerful computing devices that aren't even used used to do anything that ought to be very taxing. They're displaying what ought to basically be a text medium.
In my eyes the problem is squarely with the way the sites are designed (and their 967 partners that are interested in whatever you're clicking on).
The linked article outlines in explicit detail how it is the fault of the websites and not the devices.