Do you feel that your Android’s is getting slower and slower to use? You’re not alone.
It’s been long rumored that Facebook is a major drain on performance and battery life, and it’s not hard to find Android bloggers describing how a deletion of the app made their phone run faster and last longer, but is the effect real, or just a mistaken intuition?
One Reddit user decided to put that view to the test, in a genuinely scientific manner, tracking the speed of 15 apps with the DiscoMark benchmarking app, both with the Facebook and Messenger app, and without them.
He found that with both of the apps uninstalled, the 15 tested apps took significantly less time to start, with the total start-time declining from 7 to 6 seconds, a performance increase of 14 percent.
