How Web Content Can Affect Power Usage | WebKit

Users spend a large proportion of their online time on mobile devices, and a significant fraction of the rest is users on untethered laptop computers.

How Web Content Can Affect Power Usage Aug 27, 2019 by Benjamin Poulain & Simon Fraser @awfulben Users spend a large proportion of their online time on mobile devices, and a significant fraction of the rest is users on untethered laptop computers. For both, battery life is critical. In this post, we’ll talk about factors that affect battery life, and how you, as a web developer, can make your pages more power efficient so that users can spend more time engaged with your content. What Draws Power? Most of the energy on mobile devices is consumed by a few major components: CPU (Main proces

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