On the new bare metal server I've pushed Chrome 111 last week and I could see an increase in performance for all pages that we test on first view for desktop, This is what it looks like on Barack Obama page:
Looking at the rendering before:
And after:
I've checked on our Android phones to see if this has any effect on Android too but 111 hasn't been rolled out there yet.
There's a couple of things that I want to do:
- Check with our RUM data If I can spot the same there (I checked this weekend but too few Chrome had been updated then)
- Update our tests on AWS. We are behind there running on old Chrome 105. Let update to first 110 and then after a couple of runs 111.
- Check on our mobile phones if we can see the same thing there.
- Ask the Chrome team about if they know what's been changes. I briefly looked at the raw change log between 110->111 but could see anything but I need to dig deeper.
