Vendor‑shaped browser benchmarks

Benchmarks that claim to be neutral can be shaped by the vendors who help design or govern them, biasing results toward those vendors' products and altering public and developer perceptions. When a major browser maker participates in benchmark governance, reported metric wins (performance, power, memory) can reinforce market advantage beyond raw engineering. — Because benchmarks influence which browser developers target and which browsers users perceive as 'fast', vendor involvement in benchmark design is a competition and standards governance issue with policy and market consequences.