Comparative benchmarks against widely used blockers: Most recent results on one page

The results emphasize 3rd-party requests, as these are, I believe, a key statistics when it comes to gauge privacy matters. The rationale being that the more a user pushes data to more 3rd parties (a mere net request is pushing data) -- typically without the user being aware -- the larger the footprint of leaked metadata. It is difficult for a user to appreciate how much metadata is leaked to 3rd parties when visiting a web page, as requests to 3rd-party agents are not easy to see, let alone easy to act upon. This is where HTTP Switchboard will help you the most.

The values are averages of aggregated results of the 15 web page visited over 5 runs. In the table, a result reported as "x / n" means "3rd-party count / total count".

The most important figure in my opinion with regard to privacy is the 3rd-party Domain count, hence the ordering from left-to-right using the 3rd-party domain count figures.

Click on the links in the table for more details about a specific benchmark.

Top 15 Most Popular News Websites
	HTTPSBOOB	Ghostery	Adblock+	HTTPSBAA/BX	Disconnect	No blocker
Domains	24 / 25	54 / 55	59 / 60	69 / 70	91 / 92	476 / 477
Hosts	55 / 82	109 / 183	107 / 169	126 / 200	157 / 240	693 / 785
Scripts	0 / 0	176 / 307	173 / 293	187 / 327	235 / 391	534 / 698
Cookies	0 / 0	4 / 54	1 / 44	10 / 73	12 / 86	299 / 389
Net requests	651 / 1,232	1,064 / 1,921	1,019 / 1,815	1,087 / 1,934	1,103 / 2,091	2,300 / 3,236
Bandwidth	14,935,325	25,128,116	25,150,853	25,785,433	26,007,184	28,855,067
Top 15 Most Popular Business Websites
	HTTPSBOOB	Ghostery	Adblock+	HTTPSBAA/BX	Disconnect	No blocker
Domains	18 / 19	52 / 53	60 / 61	82 / 83	105 / 106	430 / 431
Hosts	51 / 87	98 / 172	106 / 177	137 / 215	171 / 260	643 / 743
Scripts	0 / 0	159 / 201	163 / 208	196 / 259	226 / 296	495 / 575
Cookies	0 / 0	9 / 50	7 / 48	18 / 78	17 / 87	224 / 313
Net requests	418 / 750	663 /1,287	615 / 1,224	740 / 1,390	804 / 1,510	1,757 / 2,505
Bandwidth	9,846,856	18,016,101	17,645,598	19,989,297	18,944,959	23,437,021
Top 15 Most Popular Tech & Gadget Websites
	HTTPSBOOB	Ghostery	Adblock+	HTTPSBAA/BX	Disconnect	No blocker
Domains	26 / 27	59 / 60	66 / 67	76 / 77	85 / 86	398 / 399
Hosts	37 / 69	91 / 140	97 / 146	115 / 173	145 / 203	580 / 646
Scripts	0 / 0	146 / 204	151 / 208	155 / 240	194 / 262	489 / 578
Cookies	0 / 0	9 / 38	6 / 25	16 / 60	17 / 58	233 / 304
Net requests	309 / 710	583 / 1,252	583 / 1,233	655 / 1,390	671 / 1,370	1,737 / 2,494
Bandwidth	19,801,676	30,769,246	30,340,281	31,174,355	30,895,419	33,826,528
Top 15 Most Popular Blogs
	HTTPSBOOB	Ghostery	Adblock+	HTTPSBAA/BX	Disconnect	No blocker
Domains	32 / 33	56 / 57	72 / 73	89 / 90	89 / 90	381 / 382
Hosts	36 / 71	74 / 116	91 / 142	122 / 177	144 / 188	578 / 635
Scripts	0 / 0	101 / 180	129 / 200	149 / 240	163 / 231	476 / 572
Cookies	0 / 0	20 / 47	17 / 41	37 / 74	32 / 58	224 / 275
Net requests	369 / 711	540 / 1,138	588 / 1,168	639 / 1,282	647 / 1,234	1,573 / 2,236
Bandwidth	30,365,916	37,611,873	38,043,172	38,366,098	37,856,378	42,021,162