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Re:Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate by rectang on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @01:41PM (#17717804)
I had a thought the other day:

Is there a mobile browser that tracks bandwidth used, and can tell me how much money I'm spending on bandwidth per domain?

I'd like to know which sites are parsimonious about page size. Then I'll limit my mobile browsing to those and ditch the ones that don't care.

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Re:Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate by dredmorbius on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @01:46PM (#17717853)
You can get that information from, e.g., a Squid proxy (the daily/weekly/monthly reports). Even for non-cached content.
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Re:Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate by megaman22 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @01:46PM (#17717852)
Brave shows how many ads and trackers it has blocked, as well as a number that's labeled Time Saved. How that is calculated I haven't the foggiest, but it must be related to download size.
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Re:Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate by was_boring on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @04:39PM (#17719274)
As far as I'm aware, Brave is open source and this appears to be the time saved calculation on Android. https://github.com/brave/browser-android-tabs/blob/b4d565f07...
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Re:Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate by splonk on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @06:26PM (#17720100)
Interesting. I (like others here, apparently) assumed that the time saved number was based on various tracking scripts that weren't downloaded, but if this is the relevant code, looks like it's just tracking parallel requests.
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Re:Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate by was_boring on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @07:55PM (#17720648)
You know, I think you're right. The formula from the PR that implemented "Est. Time Saved" appears to be (trackers + ads blocked) * 50ms

https://github.com/brave/browser-android-tabs/pull/331/files...

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Re:Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate by rusbus on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @01:49PM (#17717880)
Probably `Content-Length` of requests they didn't serve divided by your average download speed?
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Re:Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate by echelon on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @01:56PM (#17717929)
Brave shows this on the "new tab" page. I was surprised with how much these numbers added up over time, though I do suppose they are reasonable estimations.
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