"We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow" https://catchjs.com/Blog/PerformanceInTheWild
Interesting analysis, although I think it's hard to draw conclusions from the correlations. A lot of the causes are probably social/organizational rather than technical (e.g. X library is older, so it tends to be in older, more gnarly codebases).
@nolan our finding is that it takes a very long time to render a million web pages and we do not recommend doing it