As of October 2017, JS perf in Android / Chrome is substantially improved, probably 1.5x - 2x speedup.
As of June 2018, Qualcomm has semi-competitive (iPhone 6s territory) hardware with the Snapdragon 845. It looks like their new release coming in 2019, the Snapdragon 855, will be close to iPhone 7 performance.
We do have to wait for the vast bulk of old Android devices to cycle through the market, unfortunately. I expect that will take another 4 years.
i have a few users on android phones using the chrome browser complaining of slow site loads, only very recently, one since the last upgrade only. Anything changed which might effect this?
Make sure you are on latest, if you are behind a reverse proxy or any other weird proxy like cloudflare, there was recently a bug that prevented fallback from brotli to gzip from working. And that’s excruciating given the resulting payload file size…
Everything up to date and no CDN or proxies involved. Working fine on my iPhone with safari. Anyone else having similar issues? Only plugin i have is the ad one and I’m not even using it currently.