# Page Lifecycle API

DevFeed: [Page Lifecycle API](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/page-lifecycle-api-29519.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://philipwalton.com/articles/page-lifecycle-api/>)

Published: 2018-07-24T18:41:57Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Philip Walton](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/philip-walton.md>)

Topics: [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [browsers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browsers.md>), [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [battery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/battery.md>), [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [browsers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/browsers.md>), [cpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cpu.md>), [memory](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memory.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

The Page Lifecycle API brings mobile-app-like lifecycle behavior to web pages, allowing browsers to manage tab resources more efficiently. The article explains lifecycle states and events and provides advice and best practices based on research and cross-browser testing.

## Source excerpt

If you're like me, it's not uncommon for you to have so many tabs open in your browser that you can't even read all their titles. The problem with this, of course, is all these tabs consume system resources (memory, battery, and CPU), and if you never end up going back to them again (which, let's be honest, happens more often than not) those resources were consumed for nothing.