The heaviest parts of the test were using Google sites. Google has been caught in the past letting their sites run worse on Safari than Chrome. I'd really like to see this test done without having a single Google property be involved.
> YouTube page load is 5x slower in Firefox and Edge than in Chrome because YouTube's Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only implemented in Chrome
Of course Google is using their own browser to showcase whatever new shit they have developed, or they expand Chrome when one of their properties needs some sort of new feature. It's been quite a while that there was innovation in the browser scene from anyone but Chrome... to the contrary, over the last years a lot either gave up entirely or went under Chromium. Including Microsoft.
I do turn to YouTube if I need some kind of visual guide, like for auto repair sometimes, but it's rare.
Most links to YouTube videos I find are excruciatingly slow explanations of something that could be done in two paragraphs and one screenshot, or some kind of meme that I don't find funny.
My current car has a particular enthusiast that has a personal site with detailed text-with-photographs guides to most of the common repairs, and it's awesome.
When I buy my next car I'll probably buy a repair manual to go with it.
For a few things I've found where youtube has some specific content I'm interested in, I'll use yt-dlp to download and archive it to watch outside of youtube.com.
youtube is always in the top 5 for most time spent and visits. "representative" of the typical web user certainly includes youtube
I’m sorry, what? The typical web user is on a phone unplugged from the wall.
I haven't been longer than 15 minutes on YouTube - in total within the past 2 years. So certainly not representative for me.
"Representative for me" is incoherent. You're not a population; you don't have population statistics.
But saying YouTube must be included is like saying that most people watch YouTube, which is certainly not true at all.
So yes, YouTube must absolutely be included. And it should be included as the second most-tested site.
If I look online for stats relating to use of the YouTube app in the UK, it's 20 hours a month. If that's distributed equally across the month, that's definitely not 1.5 hours in any one sitting.
> YouTube accounted for 8.5% of total TV viewing in May, while Netflix was a close second at 7.9%.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardhomonoff/2023/06/28/summe...
Assuming that's true, I still don't think it matters that much.
I expect that a very large proportion of Netflix that's watched is watched on a smart TV. Much larger than the proportion of Youtube that's watched on a TV.
I'd have assumed most people's proportions were similar and that therefore the proportions for the two services were similar; that is to say, for people who use both kinds of devices to watch video, I wouldn't have expected a big difference based on the specific service.
Do you have a source that suggests that people who use both kinds of devices watch a larger proportion of Netflix on the TV but a larger proportion of Youtube on PC?
Is that... actually true? Or is this just a way of spinning something like "gsheets used a chrome-only extension before it was standardized". Has there been coverage of divergent power draw between chrome and other browsers on google sites?