This question was asked on stackoverflow. Just cross posting it here for better visibility. I am too facing the same issue.
I'm using EWW Emacs browser for opening various remote pages(mostly documentation) which is very handy most of the time.
I'm still trying to understand why certain pages take 4-5-6+ seconds to be rendered in eww(which take <1s in Chrome, for comparison).
For my tasks, I only care about the loaded content - images and fancy styles are not needed.
Is there any simple way to speed it up? Like setting readable mode/disabling images before calling eww? If that's possible at all.
I did some basic profiling and its seems the eww-render is lost spending time in recursive descend. Does this give any idea what could be amiss here?
- url-http-generic-filter 5103 39%
- url-http-content-length-after-change-function 4998 38%
- url-http-activate-callback 4871 37%
- apply 4871 37%
- eww-render 4667 35%
- eww-display-html 4659 35%
- shr-insert-document 3725 28%
- shr-descend 3292 25%
- shr-tag-base 3292 25%
- shr-descend 3292 25%
- shr-tag-html 3292 25%
- shr-descend 3292 25%
- shr-tag-body 3292 25%
- shr-descend 3292 25%
- shr-tag-div 3288 25%
- shr-descend 3288 25%
- shr-tag-div 3288 25%
- shr-descend 3288 25%
- shr-tag-div 3212 24%
- shr-descend 3212 24%
- shr-descend 3208 24%
- shr-descend 3124 23%
- shr-tag-div 3124 23%
- shr-descend 3124 23%
- shr-descend 3084 23%
- shr-tag-div 3084 23%
- shr-descend 3084 23%
- shr-tag-div 3084 23%
- shr-descend 3084 23%
- shr-tag-div 3084 23%
- shr-descend 3084 23%
- shr-tag-div 3084 23%
- shr-descend 3084 23%
- shr-tag-div 3023 23%
- shr-descend 3023 23%
- shr-tag-div 1604 12%
- shr-descend 1604 12%
- shr-descend 1428 10%
+ shr-tag-table 1377 10%
+ eww-tag-a 47 0%
shr-tag-div 4 0%
+ shr-tag-div 176 1%
+ shr-descend 1407 10%
+ eww-tag-a 8 0%
