The Performance Impact of Cryptocurrency Mining on the Web

30 days later.

In the 10/15 run, there were 1,040 mobile sites with the CoinHive Javascript embedded. In the 11/15 HTTPArchive run, this has dropped to 759 - a drop of 27%!

Updating @paulcalvano’s query to 11/15 (and mobile instead of chrome), we see:
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(there are probably lots of double requests for coinhive - hence the number being higher than 759)

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