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Mobile Browser profiling and optimization

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Description

### What is this about?

Current browser performance issues:
- Reports from internal&external users mentioning general "slow performance and clunkiness", especially on lower-end devices
- Page load feels slow at times
- Biggest offender is a homepage - Portfolio, the issue there is likely on the site itself
- Browser tabs are reloaded any time you switch the tab or switch from-to the browser, which adds to the feeling of slow performance

Tactics:
1. Profile page load on a list of top dapps against top competitors and native mobile browser
2. Explore the possibility of caching the recently active tabs to speed up switching between dapps

Linked JIRA initiative: https://consensyssoftware.atlassian.net/jira/polaris/projects/MWMR/ideas/view/8845676?selectedIssue=MWMR-19&issueViewSection=deliver

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### Stakeholder review needed before the work gets merged

- [ ] Engineering (needed in most cases)
- [ ] Design
- [ ] Product
- [ ] QA (automation tests are required to pass before merging PRs but not all changes are covered by automation tests - please review if QA is needed beyond automation tests)
- [ ] Security
- [ ] Legal
- [ ] Marketing
- [ ] Management (please specify)
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Research direction

Start by profiling page loads for a list of top dapps against competitors and the native mobile browser, then investigate why browser tabs reload when switching between them. The issue provides no files, tests, or acceptance criteria; completion would require measured performance improvements and a defined approach for caching recently active tabs.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
react-native, typescript
Domain
mobile, performance, web-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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