{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "artifactType": "sanitized-external-performance-comparison",
  "observedOn": "2026-09-04",
  "requestedAuditUrl": "https://chaturbate.com/?pft_EvlvMd=1",
  "purpose": "Public external evidence for contextual comparison, not a matched experiment or a substitute for production journey measurements.",
  "collectionBoundaries": {
    "newSyntheticTestsSubmitted": false,
    "paidTestsSubmitted": false,
    "accountsCreated": false,
    "productionChaturbatePagesOpenedByExternalResearcher": false,
    "privateAccountDataCollected": false,
    "performerDataCollected": false,
    "methods": [
      "Focused public web searches for the exact query-bearing URL and the origin.",
      "Read existing Google CrUX Vis reports through their public browser interface.",
      "Read the public WebPageTest history search interface.",
      "Read a dated publisher-owned historical audit and official tool methodology documentation."
    ]
  },
  "currentLabComparisonBoundary": {
    "statusAtArtifactCreation": "Root auditor reports gate-only desktop and emulated-mobile captures; legal acceptance and the accepted catalog/room journey remain pending.",
    "matchedExternalComparisonAvailable": false,
    "warning": "External data does not establish that the current audit completed the legal gate, catalog, room, or playback journey. Do not calculate a like-for-like improvement against gate-only lab results."
  },
  "crux": {
    "availability": "Verified existing URL-level and origin-level field data retrieved.",
    "provider": "Google Chrome User Experience Report via CrUX Vis",
    "measurementType": "field",
    "statistic": "p75",
    "collectionPeriod": {
      "firstDate": "2026-08-02",
      "lastDate": "2026-08-29",
      "days": 28
    },
    "scope": {
      "normalizedHomepageUrl": "https://chaturbate.com/",
      "origin": "https://chaturbate.com",
      "queryParametersIgnored": true,
      "exactExperimentalVariantIsolated": false,
      "normalizationObserved": "After submitting the query-bearing URL, the CrUX Vis input displayed https://chaturbate.com/ and its URL-data controls explicitly stated that query parameters are ignored.",
      "urlScopeMeaning": "The normalized homepage URL, with query variants aggregated together.",
      "originScopeMeaning": "Eligible experiences across pages of the HTTPS origin; not limited to the homepage.",
      "geography": "Not segmented by geography in this report; the CrUX History API exposes form-factor aggregation, not a matching audit-location filter.",
      "population": "Eligible real-world Chrome experiences; not all browsers or all site visitors.",
      "unknownDimensions": [
        "Age-gate acceptance state",
        "Consent state",
        "Authentication state",
        "Experiment membership",
        "Application build or release",
        "Exact network and hardware profile",
        "Raw sample count"
      ]
    },
    "units": {
      "fcpMs": "milliseconds",
      "lcpMs": "milliseconds",
      "inpMs": "milliseconds",
      "cls": "unitless layout-shift score",
      "ttfbMs": "milliseconds; experimental TTFB metric"
    },
    "records": [
      {
        "scope": "url",
        "identifier": "https://chaturbate.com/",
        "formFactor": "PHONE",
        "fcpMs": 1491,
        "lcpMs": 3538,
        "inpMs": 462,
        "cls": 0.02,
        "ttfbMs": 949,
        "sourceUrl": "https://cruxvis.withgoogle.com/#/?view=allmetrics&url=https%3A%2F%2Fchaturbate.com%2F%3Fpft_EvlvMd%3D1&identifier=url&device=PHONE&periodStart=0&periodEnd=-1&display=p75s"
      },
      {
        "scope": "url",
        "identifier": "https://chaturbate.com/",
        "formFactor": "DESKTOP",
        "fcpMs": 1160,
        "lcpMs": 3271,
        "inpMs": 221,
        "cls": 0.08,
        "ttfbMs": 825,
        "sourceUrl": "https://cruxvis.withgoogle.com/#/?view=allmetrics&url=https%3A%2F%2Fchaturbate.com%2F%3Fpft_EvlvMd%3D1&identifier=url&device=DESKTOP&periodStart=0&periodEnd=-1&display=p75s"
      },
      {
        "scope": "origin",
        "identifier": "https://chaturbate.com",
        "formFactor": "PHONE",
        "fcpMs": 1387,
        "lcpMs": 3612,
        "inpMs": 376,
        "cls": 0.04,
        "ttfbMs": 845,
        "sourceUrl": "https://cruxvis.withgoogle.com/#/?view=allmetrics&url=https%3A%2F%2Fchaturbate.com%2F%3Fpft_EvlvMd%3D1&identifier=origin&device=PHONE&periodStart=0&periodEnd=-1&display=p75s"
      },
      {
        "scope": "origin",
        "identifier": "https://chaturbate.com",
        "formFactor": "DESKTOP",
        "fcpMs": 1081,
        "lcpMs": 2584,
        "inpMs": 150,
        "cls": 0.36,
        "ttfbMs": 729,
        "sourceUrl": "https://cruxvis.withgoogle.com/#/?view=allmetrics&url=https%3A%2F%2Fchaturbate.com%2F%3Fpft_EvlvMd%3D1&identifier=origin&device=DESKTOP&periodStart=0&periodEnd=-1&display=p75s"
      }
    ],
    "verification": {
      "method": "Read the settled chart accessibility labels for the specified collection period, with the corresponding URL/origin and phone/desktop controls selected.",
      "animationCaution": "CrUX Vis chart transitions briefly expose interpolated floating-point values when controls change. Those intermediate values were discarded; the records contain settled values.",
      "sourceLinkCaution": "These are live dashboard links, not immutable snapshots. Their latest period will advance; use the explicit collection dates and values retained in this artifact."
    },
    "comparability": [
      "Field p75 values are not a small-sample lab p75 or a controlled desktop-versus-emulated-mobile comparison.",
      "The exact experiment query is not isolated even though it remains encoded in the share link.",
      "Origin and homepage URL results must not be merged; their populations and page coverage differ.",
      "Weekly historical points use overlapping 28-day windows and are not independent weekly samples.",
      "These metrics do not identify the responsible request, framework, module, component, or server operation."
    ],
    "methodologySources": [
      {
        "title": "CrUX methodology",
        "url": "https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux/methodology/",
        "supports": "URL query/fragment normalization, page versus origin scope, and eligible Chrome population."
      },
      {
        "title": "CrUX Vis",
        "url": "https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux/vis/",
        "supports": "Existing historical data visualization, scope/form-factor controls, p75 display, and overlapping collection periods."
      },
      {
        "title": "CrUX History API",
        "url": "https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux/history-api",
        "supports": "Form-factor aggregation, p75 time series, collection-period semantics, and weekly updates."
      }
    ]
  },
  "webPageTestCatchpoint": {
    "status": "No matching public result retrieved.",
    "exactVariantResultRetrieved": false,
    "numericBenchmarkAvailable": false,
    "searches": [
      {
        "method": "Focused public indexed searches",
        "targets": [
          "Exact query-bearing audit URL",
          "chaturbate.com in WebPageTest results",
          "chaturbate.com in Catchpoint public reports"
        ],
        "result": "No matching public performance result retrieved."
      },
      {
        "method": "Public WebPageTest Test History browser interface",
        "filter": "chaturbate.com",
        "requestedWindowDays": 30,
        "sourceUrl": "https://www.webpagetest.org/testlog.php?days=30&filter=chaturbate.com&all=on",
        "result": "Table displayed headers and no matching result rows."
      },
      {
        "method": "Public WebPageTest Test History browser interface",
        "filter": "chaturbate.com",
        "selectedPeriodLabel": "1 Year",
        "requestedWindowDays": 365,
        "sourceUrl": "https://www.webpagetest.org/testlog.php?days=365&filter=chaturbate.com",
        "result": "Table displayed headers and no matching result rows."
      }
    ],
    "limitations": [
      "This is not evidence that the site has never been tested.",
      "Private, unlisted, inaccessible, or differently retained tests and other Catchpoint accounts are outside the retrieved evidence.",
      "No synthetic test was submitted and no account or paid service was used.",
      "A supplied public Catchpoint or WebPageTest result link could enable a later comparison after its URL, date, location, browser, network, cache, and gate state are checked."
    ],
    "methodologySources": [
      {
        "title": "Catchpoint WebPageTest Test",
        "url": "https://docs.catchpoint.com/docs/webpagetest-test",
        "supports": "Test URL, node, scheduling, device emulation, and supported metric configuration."
      },
      {
        "title": "Catchpoint October 2024 release notes: WebPageTest Instant Test sharing",
        "url": "https://docs.catchpoint.com/docs/2024-10-lynx-release-notes",
        "supports": "Public share links and JSON, HAR, and CSV exports."
      }
    ]
  },
  "historicalPublisherAudit": {
    "publisher": "CWVIQ",
    "title": "Why Is Chaturbate.com Slow? Here Are The Reasons",
    "sourceUrl": "https://cwviq.com/blog/chaturbate-com/",
    "publishedOn": "2023-12-11",
    "measurementDate": null,
    "verificationLevel": "Verified as values claimed in the publisher's article; not independently reproduced and no raw Lighthouse artifact retrieved.",
    "publisherReportedMetrics": {
      "fcpMs": 970,
      "lcpMs": 1500,
      "tbtMs": 200,
      "cls": 0.001,
      "totalNetworkPayloadKiB": 3084,
      "domElements": 2682
    },
    "exactExperimentalVariantIsolated": false,
    "matchedComparisonSuitable": false,
    "unknownConfiguration": [
      "Exact tested URL and query",
      "Measurement date",
      "Browser and Lighthouse version",
      "Device and CPU configuration",
      "Network profile",
      "Test geography",
      "Cache state",
      "Number of runs",
      "Age-gate or challenge state"
    ],
    "use": "Historical context only; do not calculate current performance changes or architecture benefits from these figures.",
    "excludedClaim": "The article's separate 0.04-second load result is a server-side request timing breakdown, not comparable to browser FCP, LCP, or completed viewer readiness."
  },
  "pageSpeedInsights": {
    "existingExactVariantLabReportRetrieved": false,
    "newLabRunSubmitted": false,
    "fieldDataIndependentOfCrux": false,
    "status": "No existing exact-variant PSI lab report retrieved. PSI field data uses CrUX and is not an independent replication of the CrUX values above.",
    "scopeCaution": "PSI field data may fall back from URL to origin granularity; its CrUX data cannot isolate this query variant.",
    "sourceUrl": "https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/v5/about"
  },
  "httpArchive": {
    "urlSpecificNumericRecordRetrieved": false,
    "status": "No URL-specific numeric record retrieved from the public reports and focused searches reviewed; this does not establish absence from the dataset.",
    "numericBenchmarkAvailable": false,
    "methodology": "HTTP Archive documents a monthly crawl using its private WebPageTest instance, desktop Chrome and emulated Android, with individual first-view loads and separate Lighthouse capture.",
    "comparability": "Single-load lab records, varying US datacenter locations, browser/network conditions, and potentially unrepresentative landing or gate content limit comparisons. Aggregate web statistics are not this site's measurements.",
    "sourceUrl": "https://httparchive.org/faq"
  }
}