Sure Bernardo, happy to share.
This was the best take I got from around 4 runs. I have other video that I haven't uploaded that goes on for 4 minutes and tries to close chrome 3 times (it is painful and boring to watch).
With high speed connections I haven't experienced this behaviour, the worst I've experienced have been around 1s-2s of locked browser (not being able to interact at all) but it quickly recovers and it doesn't show the unresponsive app dialog.
I tried diagnosing using chrome developer tools connected to the device but the timeline profiles I recorded didn't show anything really evident (and it should, since it spent 20s blocked). It was pretty confusing, and my best guess is that the sheer size of the HTML (ungzipping, parsing, laying it out, etc) (+1mb of html for B. Obama), and the 100+ images that are being fetched (both the network requests, and the multiple (slow) streams of image data that need to be decoded by the phone) are somehow creating a huge bottleneck on the phone's CPU.
I'm thinking of repeating the experiment disabling images and see what difference it makes, to find out if it is the multiple images being decoded in parallel really slowly (because of network speed).
You're right Bernardo in that Nexus5 is supposed to be a good phone (not the best, but "modern" for sure), that's why I asked if more people could try doing the same thing and reporting back.
I'll also try to run the same experiment with different devices (got a few of old ones for testing), that should yield interesting results.
As far as my conclusions go, we need more data from real tests on real devices, and to really care more about this, given the industry numbers and predictions around 2G ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Paradigm.pdf&page=8)
I'll report back when I get around to testing more!
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
My apologies. I guess I read the original email too fast.
On Tuesday, January 12, 2016, Bernardo Sulzbach <mafagafogigante@gmail.com
wrote:
Brian, you seem off. Do you know that we are talking about loading the Obama page, right?
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