CPU and Websites

[muon]

I have a quick question. Something that has really started to annoy me in the past year.

Why do websites max out the cores of even the latest processors?

Take for example the LinkedIn website which is hardly advert or content intensive. On chrome the scrolling takes ages and visibly slows down as you start scrolling through content.

The likes of Facebook or any of the newspaper websites are much worse. Then there are the advert and spam advert heavy websites.

How do people using dual core processors even browse the internet? Each tab will just max out a core.

Combine this with dynamically loading websites which load content as you scroll (often infinitely) memory usage spikes and internet latency is put to the test.

 

[muon]

But you are highlighting my point. 50% usage on a dual core processor is maxing out one of the cores.

Kinetic scrolling means, rapid scrolling is very common.

edit:

Dragging the scroll bar is different though. That scrolls instantly to where you want to go. However, use the up down arrows and you get the same problem.

 

[muon]

Use adblock.

I have used adblock. Whilst it helps improve performance on the advert heavy websites, the underlying problem remains.

I've improved performance massively playing with some of these options though

chrome://flags/