# The Performance Impact of Cryptocurrency Mining on the Web **URL:** \ **Category:** Analysis\ **Created:** [November 2, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/the-performance-impact-of-cryptocurrency-mining-on-the-web/1126 "2017-11-02T16:18:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![doug\_sillars](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discuss.httparchive.org/doug_sillars/32/1297_2.png) [@doug\_sillars](https://discuss.httparchive.org/u/doug_sillars)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/the-performance-impact-of-cryptocurrency-mining-on-the-web/1126/10 "2017-12-12T22:35:07Z")
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: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/httparchive/original/2X/d/d7afbabe25b868ed8118131b0d6a539c0efb6504.png) (there are probably lots of double requests for coinhive - hence the number being higher than 759) --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/the-performance-impact-of-cryptocurrency-mining-on-the-web/1126)._