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Thanks to mobile device and network proliferation, more people are using the web than ever before. As this user base grows, performance is more important than ever. In this article, find out why performance matters, and learn what you can do to make the web faster for everyone.
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We have extended our previous benchmarks to include other popular DOM manipulation libraries: Angular 1 and 2, Mithril.js, cito.js and the standalone independent implementation of React's Virtual DOM algorithm. We have also added more metrics (including memory use).