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Devices

You can change all the details of a test device to test your website. For example, you can create a device that resembles your mobile customer and another that looks like your typical Desktop user.

Default devices

Perf.To accounts come with four devices configured by default.

NameForm FactorBandwidthLatencyCPU Throttle
MobileMobile2 Mbps150ms4x
DesktopDesktop8 Mbps30ms1x

Form Factor

This setting can be Mobile or Desktop. This setting affects:

  • screen size and device pixel ratio
  • How the Lighthouse Performance Score is calculated.
  • The User Agent

Bandwidth

This settings limits how much data is transferred per second.

Latency

In each test, each packet will be held back for this amount of time.

CPU Throttling

This setting allows you to slow down code execution to simulate a device with a less powerful CPU.