# Google May 4th Core Update impact on Discourse forums

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-may-4th-core-update-impact-on-discourse-forums/161369
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [August 19, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-may-4th-core-update-impact-on-discourse-forums/161369 "2020-08-19T12:35:50Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-may-4th-core-update-impact-on-discourse-forums/161369/98 "2020-11-23T19:25:55Z")

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Android is slower than average for single core performance, which affects heavy weight single page applications like Discourse. We go about that in depth at [The State of JavaScript on Android in 2015 is… poor](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-state-of-javascript-on-android-in-2015-is-poor/33889)

The top iPhone is 10x faster than the last Pixel when rendering Discourse. Google doesn’t take into account iPhone renders into LCP, because they just can’t since there is not real Chrome in iOS.

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