The World Wide Web (WWW) empowers people in developing regions by eradicating
illiteracy, supporting women, and generating economic opportunities. However, their …

Modern websites heavily rely on JavaScript (JS) to implement legitimate functionality as well
as privacy-invasive advertising and tracking. Browser extensions such as NoScript block any …

To quickly create interactive web pages, developers heavily rely on (large) general-purpose
JavaScript libraries. This practice bloats web pages with complex unused functions dead …

Automated software debloating of program source or binary code has tremendous potential
to improve both application performance and security. Unfortunately, measuring and …

Users in developing regions still suffer from poor web performance, mainly due to their
unique landscape of low-end devices. In this paper, we uncover a root cause of this …

Today's Web remains too expensive for many Internet users, especially in developing
regions. Unfortunately, the rising complexity of the Web makes affordability an even bigger …

While JavaScript established itself as a cornerstone of the modern web, it also constitutes a
major tracking and security vector, thus raising critical privacy and security concerns. In this …

The amount of JavaScript used in web pages has substantially grown in the past decade,
leading to large and complex pages that are computationally intensive for handheld mobile …

JavaScript contributes to the increasing complexity of today's web. To support user
interactivity and accelerate the development cycle, web developers heavily rely on large …

The increasing complexity of JavaScript (JS) in modern mobile web pages has become a
performance bottleneck for low-end mobile phone users, especially in developing regions …