It adds interactivity to web pages, which enhances user experience, but it can also slow down your site if not used properly. When JavaScript code is executed, it can be resource-intensive ...

Those browsers can develop some improvements based in the peculiarities of the web automation tasks. In this paper, we present a novel optimization technique that allows the parallel execution of the ...

Currently one of the most popular type of web applications is so-called social networks, e.g., Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. However, the workload and execution behavior of JavaScript in this ...

Take TraceMonkey, a newly announced Mozilla-based project that speeds up JavaScript execution dramatically and thus speeds up the Web. Just sixty days old from the start of development ...

Unfortunately, more often than not, my attempts at explaining that it is indeed possible to block javascript execution reliably in a Chromium-based browser are quickly dismissed with no visible ...

Once Chakra gets JavaScript code from an app or website it checks it for any syntax errors, which are statements that violate language rules. When a function is executed Chakra creates an abstract ...

JavaScript, the scripting language of the web, is a double-edged sword when it comes to website performance. On one hand, it's the lifeblood of modern web applications, enabling interactive and ...