[senectus1]

the conclusion isn't good enough?

Conclusions Conversations (XMPP) seems best for battery life, traffic and RAM.

Facebook Messenger and Element (Matrix) are the worst from the studied apps, draining up to 300x more power than Conversations when battery optimization is disabled. Keep battery optimization enabled for them, I guess. Need more data to see better.

Element X (experimental Matrix app) is coming up with a more than 100x reduction in energy consumption (comparing to Element), drawing just 2x more power than Conversations.

A few more proprietary messengers have been measured and they fall in between the space between the above mentioned extremes. Little can be said about them besides that most of them continuously draw substantial amount of power and bandwidth even when not interacted with.

[MBCook]

I got down to about the graphs before I gave up.

If there was a conclusion beyond that, I’m sorry but I missed it.

This site reminds me of the early 90s when people would make frame layouts with dozens of individual little tiny frames and put different content in every single one.

There’s a reason no one does that anymore.

[j16sdiz]

No surprise for Facebook Messenger. Facebook have a Messenger Lite app with exactly the same feature set ,for years. No idea why they still have the non-lite version as default.

[rpodraza]

they recently removed the lite version.