Closed Bug 1458076 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Nimbledroid's buzzfeed.com page load test is 2x slower in GeckoView than WebView

Categories

(GeckoView :: General, defect, P2)

Product:
GeckoView
Component:
General
Platform:
Unspecified
Android
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Performance Impact:high, firefox-esr52 wontfix, firefox-esr60 wontfix, firefox59 wontfix, firefox60 wontfix, firefox61 wontfix, firefox62 wontfix, firefox65 wontfix, firefox66 wontfix, firefox67 affected, firefox68 affected)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Project Flags:
Performance Impact high
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox-esr52 --- wontfix
firefox-esr60 --- wontfix
firefox59 --- wontfix
firefox60 --- wontfix
firefox61 --- wontfix
firefox62 --- wontfix
firefox65 --- wontfix
firefox66 --- wontfix
firefox67 --- affected
firefox68 --- affected

People

(Reporter: cpeterson, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: perf:pageload)

Nimbledroid test results: Klar+WebView = 5.2 seconds https://nimbledroid.com/my_apps/org.mozilla.focus.debug?a=d78f816d-3591-4203-9820-bed76f107406 Klar+GeckoView = 10.9 seconds https://nimbledroid.com/my_apps/org.mozilla.klar.gecko.debug?a=aa414153-e579-4f7b-a5ee-850b48f5b70a#summary Randell saw similar Firefox performance problems on desktop when profiling abcnews.go.com, so this is not an Android-specific problem. Transferred data is the same (64K). Uncompressed size is 306K. Content is identical, but we took far longer to load the initial HTML and far longer to finish loading the page. Chrome on desktop: redirect is 184 ms document is 142ms page fully loaded is ~2500 ms FF local opt build on desktop: redirect 85ms document takes 1856 ms page fully loaded is ~7000-9000 ms
(In reply to Chris Peterson [:cpeterson] from comment #0) > Randell saw similar Firefox performance problems on desktop when profiling > abcnews.go.com, so this is not an Android-specific problem. Correction: this should say "buzzfeed.com", not "abcnews.go.com". Bug 1458073 tracks abcnews.go.com performance. This bug is about buzzfeed.com.
Blocks: 1458079
status-firefox60: fix-optional → wontfix
status-firefox61: affected → fix-optional
Whiteboard: [qf] → [geckoview:klar] [qf]
Hey cpeterson, for the Desktop case, can you provide a profile for us on the machine with the Firefox instance that was seeing the slow load?
Flags: needinfo?(cpeterson)
Whiteboard: [geckoview:klar] [qf] → [geckoview:klar] [qf:investigate]
P2 feels right as a default for performance bugs tied to our nimbledroid informed perf work.
Priority: -- → P2
Klar+GV is not blocking tracking scripts correctly (bug 1459037), so we can't fairly compare Focus+WebView vs Klar+GeckoView yet.
Depends on: 1459037
Flags: needinfo?(cpeterson)
Flags: needinfo?(rjesup)
Product: Firefox for Android → GeckoView
status-firefox61: fix-optional → wontfix
status-firefox62: affected → wontfix
status-firefox65: --- → wontfix
status-firefox66: --- → affected
status-firefox67: --- → affected
Whiteboard: [geckoview:klar] [qf:investigate] → [qf:investigate]
Whiteboard: [qf:investigate] → [qf:p1:pageload]

Chris, we would like you to capture a new profile but it's broken right now.

Flags: needinfo?(cpeterson)

(In reply to Jean Gong :jgong from comment #5)

Chris, we would like you to capture a new profile but it's broken right now.

What is broken? The Buzzfeed link or Gecko profiling?

Here is the Buzzfeed URL used in the Nimbledroid page load tests:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-new-york-times-makes-the-nerdiest-correction-e?utm_term=.tlL2KE08L6

In Firefox 65, the page's loading spinner takes 20+ seconds to stop spinning. In Chrome and Firefox 66 and 67, the loading spinner stops spinning after about 5 seconds. Perhaps Randell's timer changes in 66 fixed this issue?

Flags: needinfo?(cpeterson)

Based on the comment 6, this looks like done.
Please reopen if needed or file new bugs.
WFM (or possibly FIXED)

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(rjesup)
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME

The Nimbledroid test results for buzzfeed.com say that GeckoView is 18x slower than Chrome (25.10 vs 1.40 seconds). I don't trust these Nimbledroid tests and the Chrome results have not be updated since January. I will ask if there is newer data.

https://health.graphics/android/graph?site=https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-new-york-times-makes-the-nerdiest-correction-e?utm_term=.tlL2KE08L6#.hwrBglaV2A

status-firefox66: affected → wontfix
status-firefox68: --- → affected

WFM

Manual comparison of the time to load the full page on my Moto G5 for https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-new-york-times-makes-the-nerdiest-correction-e

Fennec 68 Nightly: about 2 seconds
Fenix (GV 67 Beta): about 2 seconds
Chrome 73: about 1 second

Performance Impact: --- → P1
Keywords: perf:pageload
Whiteboard: [qf:p1:pageload]
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