Would be fun to read an article about how websites abuse browsers. I keep getting frustrated with https://www.macrumors.com and its insane amount of network calls, ads, bits of javascript, and other endless connections. Browser features started off so easy to understand, and now it's crazy. I had to write a webapp for the USPS in 1998 using IE 2, which had almost no features, and occasionally the features they had actually worked...
Speaking 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.
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.
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Would be fun to read an article about how websites abuse browsers. I keep getting frustrated with https://www.macrumors.com and its insane amount of network calls, ads, bits of javascript, and other endless connections. Browser features started off so easy to understand, and now it's crazy. I had to write a webapp for the USPS in 1998 using IE 2, which had almost no features, and occasionally the features they had actually worked...
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.
Speaking 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.
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.
Field metrics as measured by the Core Web Vitals / CRUX are a factor in search ranking, not Lighthouse.