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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.

Update from a few weeks later

I made a few experiments and from what I found the biggest contributing factor in my case is when a page has lots of third-party fonts. I wasn't able to find a way to disable font fetching in eww source code so probably true "text based" browser like w3m was a better solution in the first place.

Any clarification comments and answers are still very welcome.

BinaryButterfly
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  • Have you tried [profiling](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Profiling.html#Profiling) the code? – NickD Nov 25 '20 at 13:24
  • Can you try changing the fontset used and see if it makes a difference? – Kabira K Dec 09 '20 at 00:43
  • @Sandeep looks like fonts is the biggest slowdown reason but I wasn't able to prevent them from being loaded in eww – BinaryButterfly Dec 09 '20 at 10:32
  • i am not getting any slowdown in eww. In my case it was mostly other emacs utils (linnum-column-mode, helm-autocomplete) etc. that were getting called during the rendering. Could you share a webpage and some rendering timings? – Kabira K Dec 25 '20 at 11:59

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