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Hogarth is a developer whose contributions include work on a web browser.  He's recently read a blog post from someone explaining that, after she switched several years ago away from the browser Hogarth works on, she's now switching back.  She says that she originally switched away because the other browser was faster than Hogarth's, but now it's Hogarth's browser that's the fast one.  Happy as he is, Hogarth is suspicious.  He knows there are a lot of variables that affect the perception of performance on the Web: on average, web sites are heavier today than they were half a decade ago, the blog author has probably been through a machine (and system) upgrade or two in that time, and her browsing patterns and content interests have probably changed as well.  In the interests of intellectual honesty, Hogarth would like to do some experiments to figure out if her given reasoning is well-founded or not.