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It could just be me running a CPU that's too old or an unconventional browser (Microsoft Edge), but the website is extremely laggy (less than 1 update per second) and the tab immediately starts using 80% of my CPU with fans blaring. Got an 8th gen Intel i7 if it matters.

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There's nothing unconventional about Microsoft Edge. It's pretty much Chrome.

What GPU do you have?

It's a laptop GPU - there's the integrated Intel UHD Graphics 620 card and the dedicated NVIDIA GeForce MX150. Both are pretty old (6-7 years?) but are capable of running most 3D games so I was a bit surprised.

EDIT: P.S. What might help debug is that I have hardware acceleration enabled in the browser, but the GPU is not doing any work on the animejs homepage. For e.g. YouTube, the GPU does a lot of work so I've verified hardware accel works.

Youtube would be playing videos which tend to run on GPUs.

But just because you have hardware accelerated videos doesn't mean that everything in your browser is hardware accelerated.

I'd recommend checking out "edge://flags" in your browser, then searching for "canvas" and see if hardware acceleration is enabled.

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