Study shows why Apple, Google, Microsoft got together for modern web performance is too slow

Thankfully, Microsoft promptly addressed the issue and took proactive measures to resolve the bug within 24 hours. They also provided an explanation, stating that a deprecated Defender feature was the cause of the problem.

In spite of the fact that it was just a bug, it is still accurate to say that the contemporary web is more demanding than ever, and using an entry-level PC or mobile phone for internet browsing is no longer feasible.

The recent internet speed boost by the FCC is certainly a welcome development, as it aligns with the rising security standards such as Microsoft’s mandatory use of 2048-bit keys on Windows. You can test your internet speed in this article to see the positive impact of these advancements.

Despite the fact that a browser benchmark such as Speedometer 3.0 can provide information about the speed of a web browser, the hardware itself plays a significant role in determining overall performance. In an attempt to evaluate the capability of various classes of hardware in handling the demands of the modern internet, Twitter (now X) user Dan Luu conducted a study.

The CPUs that were evaluated included Apple’s M3 Max and M1 Pro Macbooks, along with an M3 that had its throttling adjusted to 10x via Chrome Dev tools. This is denoted by “M3/10″in the accompanying chart.

In addition to those, the mid-range and low-end SoC categories also featured the Tecno Spark 8C with an octa-core UniSOC T606 chipset and the Itel P32 with a quad-core MediaTek MT6580 chipset.

In case you are curious, Dan Luu explains that the measured metrics are intended to assess something specific.

.. every row represents a website and every non-label column is a metric. After the website name column, we have the compressed size transferred over the wire (wire) and the raw, uncompressed, size (raw). Then we have, for each device, Largest Contentful Paint* (LCP*) and CPU usage on the main thread (CPU). Google’s docs explain LCP as

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measures when a user perceives that the largest content of a page is visible. The metric value for LCP represents the time duration between the user initiating the page load and the page rendering its primary content

Despite having an 8-core SoC, the Tecno Spark 8C has surprisingly struggled to load Quora. Additionally, the 4-core MediaTek also faced numerous failures, almost equaling its successes. This emphasizes the amount of bloatware present on the modern web and the challenges of browsing the internet on a budget-friendly device.

Dan Luu shared this tweet on Twitter.