We recently upgraded our version of headless Chrome from 58 to 59 hoping for a 30% across-the-board reduction in CPU usage, but it wasn't so. This (contrived) benchmark shows a 38% decrease in performance for a React app rendering 100,000 divs.
chrome 58 | chrome 59 | ||
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prerender.cloud (this site) | 45ms | 34ms | 32% faster |
create-react-app 100,000 hello-world divs | 434ms | 600ms | 38% slower |
ReactDOMServer.renderToString(<MyReactApp />)