WebChar is a tool for analyzing browsers holistically to discover properties of HTML and CSS that lead to poor performance and high energy consumption. It analyzes a large collection of Web pages to mine a model for their performance based on static attributes of the content. An evaluation on two platforms, a netbook and a smartphone, demonstrates that WebChar can yield actionable conclusions for both content developers and browser implementors.
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Sampson et al. (2012) studied this question.