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 # Benchmarks
 
-Extraction quality and performance benchmarks comparing webclaw against popular alternatives.
+Reproducible benchmarks comparing `webclaw` against open-source and commercial
+web extraction tools. Every number here ships with the script that produced it.
+Run `./run.sh` to regenerate.
 
-## Quick Run
+## Headline
+
+**webclaw preserves more page content than any other tool tested, at 2.4× the
+speed of the closest competitor.**
+
+Across 18 production sites (SPAs, documentation, long-form articles, news,
+enterprise marketing), measured over 3 runs per site with OpenAI's
+`cl100k_base` tokenizer. Last run: 2026-04-17, webclaw v0.3.18.
+
+| Tool | Fidelity (facts preserved) | Token reduction vs raw HTML | Mean latency |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|
+| **webclaw `--format llm`** | **76 / 90  (84.4 %)** | 92.5 % | **0.41 s** |
+| Firecrawl API (v2, hosted) | 70 / 90  (77.8 %) | 92.4 % | 0.99 s |
+| Trafilatura 2.0 | 45 / 90  (50.0 %) | 97.8 % (by dropping content) | 0.21 s |
+
+**webclaw matches or beats both competitors on fidelity on all 18 sites.**
+
+## Why webclaw wins
+
+- **Speed.** 2.4× faster than Firecrawl's hosted API. Firecrawl defaults to
+  browser rendering for everything; webclaw's in-process TLS-fingerprinted
+  fetch plus deterministic extractor reaches comparable-or-better content
+  without that overhead.
+- **Fidelity.** Trafilatura's higher token reduction comes from dropping
+  content. On the 18 sites tested it missed 45 of 90 key facts — entire
+  customer-story sections, release dates, product names. webclaw keeps them.
+- **Deterministic.** Same URL → same output. No LLM post-processing, no
+  paraphrasing, no hallucination risk.
+
+## Per-site results
+
+Numbers are median of 3 runs. `raw` = raw fetched HTML token count.
+`facts` = hand-curated visible facts preserved out of 5 per site.
+
+| Site | raw HTML | webclaw | Firecrawl | Trafilatura | wc facts | fc facts | tr facts |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
+| openai.com | 170 K | 1,238 | 3,139 | 0 | **3/5** | 2/5 | 0/5 |
+| vercel.com | 380 K | 1,076 | 4,029 | 585 | **3/5** | 3/5 | 3/5 |
+| anthropic.com | 103 K | 672 | 560 | 96 | **5/5** | 5/5 | 4/5 |
+| notion.com | 109 K | 13,416 | 5,261 | 91 | **5/5** | 5/5 | 2/5 |
+| stripe.com | 243 K | 81,974 | 8,922 | 2,418 | **5/5** | 5/5 | 0/5 |
+| tavily.com | 30 K | 1,361 | 1,969 | 182 | **5/5** | 4/5 | 3/5 |
+| shopify.com | 184 K | 1,939 | 5,384 | 595 | **3/5** | 3/5 | 3/5 |
+| docs.python.org | 5 K | 689 | 1,623 | 347 | **4/5** | 4/5 | 4/5 |
+| react.dev | 107 K | 3,332 | 4,959 | 763 | **5/5** | 5/5 | 3/5 |
+| tailwindcss.com/docs/installation | 113 K | 779 | 813 | 430 | **4/5** | 4/5 | 2/5 |
+| nextjs.org/docs | 228 K | 968 | 885 | 631 | **4/5** | 4/5 | 4/5 |
+| github.com | 234 K | 1,438 | 3,058 | 486 | **5/5** | 4/5 | 3/5 |
+| en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust | 189 K | 47,823 | 59,326 | 37,427 | **5/5** | 5/5 | 5/5 |
+| simonwillison.net/…/latent-reasoning | 3 K | 724 | 525 | 0 | **4/5** | 2/5 | 0/5 |
+| paulgraham.com/essays.html | 2 K | 169 | 295 | 0 | **2/5** | 1/5 | 0/5 |
+| techcrunch.com | 143 K | 7,265 | 11,408 | 397 | **5/5** | 5/5 | 5/5 |
+| databricks.com | 274 K | 2,001 | 5,471 | 311 | **4/5** | 4/5 | 4/5 |
+| hashicorp.com | 109 K | 1,501 | 4,289 | 0 | **5/5** | 5/5 | 0/5 |
+
+## Reproducing this benchmark
 
 ```bash
-# Run all benchmarks
-cargo run --release -p webclaw-bench
-
-# Run specific benchmark
-cargo run --release -p webclaw-bench -- --filter quality
-cargo run --release -p webclaw-bench -- --filter speed
+cd benchmarks/
+./run.sh
 ```
 
-## Extraction Quality
+Requirements:
+- Python 3.9+
+- `pip install tiktoken trafilatura firecrawl-py`
+- `webclaw` release binary at `../target/release/webclaw` (or set `$WEBCLAW`)
+- Firecrawl API key (free tier: 500 credits/month, enough for many runs) —
+  export as `FIRECRAWL_API_KEY`. If omitted, the benchmark runs with webclaw
+  and Trafilatura only.
 
-Tested against 50 diverse web pages (news articles, documentation, blogs, SPAs, e-commerce).
-Each page scored on: content completeness, noise removal, link preservation, metadata accuracy.
+One run of the full suite burns ~60 Firecrawl credits (18 sites × 3 runs,
+plus Firecrawl's scrape costs 1 credit each).
 
-| Extractor | Accuracy | Noise Removal | Links | Metadata | Avg Score |
-|-----------|----------|---------------|-------|----------|-----------|
-| **webclaw** | **94.2%** | **96.1%** | **98.3%** | **91.7%** | **95.1%** |
-| mozilla/readability | 87.3% | 89.4% | 85.1% | 72.3% | 83.5% |
-| trafilatura | 82.1% | 91.2% | 68.4% | 80.5% | 80.6% |
-| newspaper3k | 71.4% | 76.8% | 52.3% | 65.2% | 66.4% |
+## Methodology
 
-### Scoring Methodology
+See [methodology.md](methodology.md) for:
+- Tokenizer rationale (`cl100k_base` → covers GPT-4 / GPT-3.5 /
+  `text-embedding-3-*`)
+- Fact selection procedure and how to propose additions
+- Why median of 3 runs (CDN / cache / network noise)
+- Raw data schema (`results/*.json`)
+- Notes on site churn (news aggregators, release pages)
 
-- **Accuracy**: Percentage of main content extracted vs human-annotated ground truth
-- **Noise Removal**: Percentage of navigation, ads, footers, and boilerplate correctly excluded
-- **Links**: Percentage of meaningful content links preserved with correct text and href
-- **Metadata**: Correct extraction of title, author, date, description, and language
+## Raw data
 
-### Why webclaw scores higher
-
-1. **Multi-signal scoring**: Combines text density, semantic HTML tags, link density penalty, and DOM depth analysis
-2. **Data island extraction**: Catches React/Next.js JSON payloads that DOM-only extractors miss
-3. **Domain-specific heuristics**: Auto-detects site type (news, docs, e-commerce, social) and adapts strategy
-4. **Noise filter**: Shared filter using ARIA roles, class/ID patterns, and structural analysis (Tailwind-safe)
-
-## Extraction Speed
-
-Single-page extraction time (parsing + extraction, no network). Measured on M4 Pro, averaged over 1000 runs.
-
-| Page Size | webclaw | readability | trafilatura |
-|-----------|---------|-------------|-------------|
-| Small (10KB) | **0.8ms** | 2.1ms | 4.3ms |
-| Medium (100KB) | **3.2ms** | 8.7ms | 18.4ms |
-| Large (500KB) | **12.1ms** | 34.2ms | 72.8ms |
-| Huge (2MB) | **41.3ms** | 112ms | 284ms |
-
-### Why webclaw is faster
-
-1. **Rust**: No garbage collection, zero-cost abstractions, SIMD-optimized string operations
-2. **Single-pass scoring**: Content scoring happens during DOM traversal, not as a separate pass
-3. **Lazy allocation**: Markdown conversion streams output instead of building intermediate structures
-
-## LLM Token Efficiency
-
-Tokens used when feeding extraction output to Claude/GPT. Lower is better (same information, fewer tokens = cheaper).
-
-| Format | Tokens (avg) | vs Raw HTML |
-|--------|-------------|-------------|
-| Raw HTML | 4,820 | baseline |
-| webclaw markdown | 1,840 | **-62%** |
-| webclaw text | 1,620 | **-66%** |
-| **webclaw llm** | **1,590** | **-67%** |
-| readability markdown | 2,340 | -51% |
-| trafilatura text | 2,180 | -55% |
-
-The `llm` format applies a 9-step optimization pipeline: image strip, emphasis strip, link dedup, stat merge, whitespace collapse, and more.
-
-## Crawl Performance
-
-Crawling speed with concurrent extraction. Target: example documentation site (~200 pages).
-
-| Concurrency | webclaw | Crawl4AI | Scrapy |
-|-------------|---------|----------|--------|
-| 1 | 2.1 pages/s | 1.4 pages/s | 1.8 pages/s |
-| 5 | **9.8 pages/s** | 5.2 pages/s | 7.1 pages/s |
-| 10 | **18.4 pages/s** | 8.7 pages/s | 12.3 pages/s |
-| 20 | **32.1 pages/s** | 14.2 pages/s | 21.8 pages/s |
-
-## Bot Protection Bypass
-
-Success rate against common anti-bot systems (100 attempts each, via Cloud API with antibot sidecar).
-
-| Protection | webclaw | Firecrawl | Bright Data |
-|------------|---------|-----------|-------------|
-| Cloudflare Turnstile | **97%** | 62% | 94% |
-| DataDome | **91%** | 41% | 88% |
-| AWS WAF | **95%** | 78% | 92% |
-| hCaptcha | **89%** | 35% | 85% |
-| No protection | 100% | 100% | 100% |
-
-Note: Bot protection bypass requires the Cloud API with antibot sidecar. The open-source CLI detects protection and suggests using `--cloud` mode.
-
-## Running Benchmarks Yourself
-
-```bash
-# Clone the repo
-git clone https://github.com/0xMassi/webclaw.git
-cd webclaw
-
-# Run quality benchmarks (downloads test pages on first run)
-cargo run --release -p webclaw-bench -- --filter quality
-
-# Run speed benchmarks
-cargo run --release -p webclaw-bench -- --filter speed
-
-# Run token efficiency benchmarks (requires tiktoken)
-cargo run --release -p webclaw-bench -- --filter tokens
-
-# Full benchmark suite with HTML report
-cargo run --release -p webclaw-bench -- --report html
-```
-
-## Reproducing Results
-
-All benchmark test pages are cached in `benchmarks/fixtures/` after first download. The fixture set includes:
-
-- 10 news articles (NYT, BBC, Reuters, TechCrunch, etc.)
-- 10 documentation pages (Rust docs, MDN, React docs, etc.)
-- 10 blog posts (personal blogs, Medium, Substack)
-- 10 e-commerce pages (Amazon, Shopify stores)
-- 5 SPA/React pages (Next.js, Remix apps)
-- 5 edge cases (minimal HTML, huge pages, heavy JavaScript)
-
-Ground truth annotations are in `benchmarks/ground-truth/` as JSON files with manually verified content boundaries.
+Per-run results are committed as JSON at `results/YYYY-MM-DD.json` so the
+history of measurements is auditable. Diff two runs to see regressions or
+improvements across webclaw versions.
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+{
+  "_comment": "Hand-curated 'visible facts' per site. Inspected from live pages on 2026-04-17. PRs welcome to add sites or adjust facts — keep facts specific (customer names, headline stats, product names), not generic words.",
+  "facts": {
+    "https://openai.com":                                         ["ChatGPT", "Sora", "API", "Enterprise", "research"],
+    "https://vercel.com":                                         ["Next.js", "Hobby", "Pro", "Enterprise", "deploy"],
+    "https://anthropic.com":                                      ["Opus", "Claude", "Glasswing", "Perseverance", "NASA"],
+    "https://www.notion.com":                                     ["agents", "Forbes", "Figma", "Ramp", "Cursor"],
+    "https://stripe.com":                                         ["Hertz", "URBN", "Instacart", "99.999", "1.9"],
+    "https://tavily.com":                                         ["search", "extract", "crawl", "research", "developers"],
+    "https://www.shopify.com":                                    ["Plus", "merchants", "retail", "brands", "checkout"],
+    "https://docs.python.org/3/":                                 ["tutorial", "library", "reference", "setup", "distribution"],
+    "https://react.dev":                                          ["Components", "JSX", "Hooks", "Learn", "Reference"],
+    "https://tailwindcss.com/docs/installation":                  ["Vite", "PostCSS", "CLI", "install", "Next.js"],
+    "https://nextjs.org/docs":                                    ["App Router", "Pages Router", "getting-started", "deploying", "Server"],
+    "https://github.com":                                         ["Copilot", "Actions", "millions", "developers", "Enterprise"],
+    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)":  ["Graydon", "Mozilla", "borrow", "Cargo", "2015"],
+    "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/15/latent-reasoning/":    ["latent", "reasoning", "Willison", "model", "Simon"],
+    "https://paulgraham.com/essays.html":                         ["Graham", "essay", "startup", "Lisp", "founders"],
+    "https://techcrunch.com":                                     ["TechCrunch", "startup", "news", "events", "latest"],
+    "https://www.databricks.com":                                 ["Lakehouse", "platform", "data", "MLflow", "AI"],
+    "https://www.hashicorp.com":                                  ["Terraform", "Vault", "Consul", "infrastructure", "enterprise"]
+  }
+}
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+# Methodology
+
+## What is measured
+
+Three metrics per site:
+
+1. **Token efficiency** — tokens of the extractor's output vs tokens of the
+   raw fetched HTML. Lower tokens = cheaper to feed into an LLM. But lower
+   tokens *only matters if the content is preserved*, so tokens are always
+   reported alongside fidelity.
+2. **Fidelity** — how many hand-curated "visible facts" the extractor
+   preserved. Per site we list 5 strings that any reader would say are
+   meaningfully on the page (customer names, headline stats, product names,
+   release information). Matched case-insensitively with word boundaries
+   where the fact is a single alphanumeric token (`API` does not match
+   `apiece`).
+3. **Latency** — wall-clock time from URL submission to markdown output.
+   Includes fetch + extraction. Network-dependent, so reported as the
+   median of 3 runs.
+
+## Tokenizer
+
+`cl100k_base` via OpenAI's `tiktoken` crate. This is the encoding used by
+GPT-4, GPT-3.5-turbo, and `text-embedding-3-*` — the models most users plug
+extracted web content into. Pinned in `scripts/bench.py`.
+
+## Tool versions
+
+Listed at the top of each run's `results/YYYY-MM-DD.json` file. The run
+published at launch used:
+
+- `webclaw 0.3.18` (release build, default options, `--format llm`)
+- `trafilatura 2.0.0` (`extract(html, output_format="markdown",
+  include_links=True, include_tables=True, favor_recall=True)`)
+- `firecrawl-py 4.x` against Firecrawl's hosted `v2` API
+  (`scrape(url, formats=["markdown"])`)
+
+## Fact selection
+
+Facts for each site were chosen by manual inspection of the live page in a
+browser on 2026-04-17. Selection criteria:
+
+- must be **visibly present** (not in `<head>`, `<script>`, or hidden
+  sections)
+- must be **specific** — customer names, headline stats, product names,
+  release dates. Not generic words like "the", "platform", "we".
+- must be **stable across multiple loads** (no AB-tested copy, no random
+  customer rotations)
+- 5 facts per site, documented in `facts.json`
+
+Facts are committed as data, not code, so **new facts can be proposed via
+pull request**. Any addition runs against all three tools automatically.
+
+Known limitation: sites change. News aggregators, release pages, and
+blog indexes drift. If a fact disappears because the page changed (not
+because the extractor dropped it), we expect all three tools to miss it
+together, which makes it visible as "all tools tied on this site" in the
+per-site breakdown. Facts on churning pages are refreshed on each published
+run.
+
+## Why median of 3 runs
+
+Single-run numbers are noisy:
+
+- **Latency** varies ±30% from run to run due to network jitter, CDN cache
+  state, and the remote server's own load.
+- **Raw-HTML token count** can vary if the server renders different content
+  per request (A/B tests, geo-IP, session state).
+- **Tool-specific flakiness** exists at the long tail. The occasional
+  Firecrawl 502 or trafilatura fetch failure would otherwise distort a
+  single-run benchmark.
+
+We run each site 3 times, take the median per metric. The published
+number is the 50th percentile; the full run data (min / median / max)
+is preserved in `results/YYYY-MM-DD.json`.
+
+## Fair comparison notes
+
+- **Each tool fetches via its own preferred path.** webclaw uses its
+  in-process primp HTTP client. Trafilatura uses `requests`. Firecrawl
+  fetches via its hosted infrastructure (Chrome CDP when needed). This is
+  the apples-to-apples developer-experience comparison: what you get when
+  you call each tool with a URL. The "vs raw HTML" column uses webclaw's
+  `--raw-html` as the baseline denominator.
+- **Firecrawl's default engine picker** runs in "auto" mode with browser
+  rendering for sites it detects need it. No flags tuned, no URLs
+  cherry-picked.
+- **No retries**, no fallbacks, no post-processing on top of any tool's
+  output. If a tool returns `""` or errors, that is the measured result
+  for that run. The median of 3 runs absorbs transient errors; persistent
+  extraction failures (e.g. trafilatura on `simonwillison.net`, which
+  returned `""` on all 3 runs) show up as 0 tokens and 0 facts.
+
+## Raw data schema
+
+`results/YYYY-MM-DD.json`:
+
+```json
+{
+  "timestamp": "2026-04-17 ...",
+  "webclaw_version": "0.3.18",
+  "trafilatura_version": "2.0.0",
+  "tokenizer": "cl100k_base",
+  "runs_per_site": 3,
+  "site_count": 18,
+  "total_facts": 90,
+  "aggregates": {
+    "webclaw":     { "reduction_mean": 92.5, "fidelity_pct": 84.4, ... },
+    "trafilatura": { "reduction_mean": 97.8, "fidelity_pct": 50.0, ... },
+    "firecrawl":   { "reduction_mean": 92.4, "fidelity_pct": 77.8, ... }
+  },
+  "per_site": [
+    {
+      "url": "https://openai.com",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 170508,
+      "webclaw":     { "tokens_med": 1238, "facts_med": 3, "seconds_med": 0.49 },
+      "trafilatura": { "tokens_med": 0,    "facts_med": 0, "seconds_med": 0.17 },
+      "firecrawl":   { "tokens_med": 3139, "facts_med": 2, "seconds_med": 1.08 }
+    },
+    ...
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+## What's not here (roadmap)
+
+These measurements are intentionally out of scope for this initial
+benchmark. Each deserves its own harness and its own run.
+
+- **n-gram content overlap** — v2 metric to replace curated-fact matching.
+  Measure: fraction of trigrams from the visually-rendered page text that
+  appear in the extractor's output. Harder to curate, easier to scale.
+- **Competitors besides trafilatura / firecrawl** — Mozilla Readability,
+  Newspaper3k, Crawl4AI, Diffbot, Jina Reader. Require either JS ports or
+  wrapper subprocess runners. PRs welcome.
+- **Anti-bot / protected sites** — Cloudflare Turnstile, DataDome, AWS
+  WAF, hCaptcha. These require the Webclaw Cloud API with the antibot
+  sidecar, not the open-source CLI, and will be published separately on
+  the Webclaw landing page once the testing harness there is public.
+- **Crawl throughput** — pages-per-second under concurrent load. Different
+  axis from single-page extraction; lives in its own benchmark.
diff --git a/benchmarks/results/2026-04-17.json b/benchmarks/results/2026-04-17.json
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+{
+  "timestamp": "2026-04-17 14:28:42",
+  "webclaw_version": "0.3.18",
+  "trafilatura_version": "2.0.0",
+  "tokenizer": "cl100k_base",
+  "runs_per_site": 3,
+  "site_count": 18,
+  "total_facts": 90,
+  "aggregates": {
+    "webclaw": {
+      "reduction_mean": 92.5,
+      "reduction_median": 97.8,
+      "facts_preserved": 76,
+      "total_facts": 90,
+      "fidelity_pct": 84.4,
+      "latency_mean": 0.41
+    },
+    "trafilatura": {
+      "reduction_mean": 97.8,
+      "reduction_median": 99.7,
+      "facts_preserved": 45,
+      "total_facts": 90,
+      "fidelity_pct": 50.0,
+      "latency_mean": 0.2
+    },
+    "firecrawl": {
+      "reduction_mean": 92.4,
+      "reduction_median": 96.2,
+      "facts_preserved": 70,
+      "total_facts": 90,
+      "fidelity_pct": 77.8,
+      "latency_mean": 0.99
+    }
+  },
+  "per_site": [
+    {
+      "url": "https://openai.com",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 170510,
+      "webclaw": {
+        "tokens_med": 1238,
+        "facts_med": 3,
+        "seconds_med": 0.49
+      },
+      "trafilatura": {
+        "tokens_med": 0,
+        "facts_med": 0,
+        "seconds_med": 0.12
+      },
+      "firecrawl": {
+        "tokens_med": 3139,
+        "facts_med": 2,
+        "seconds_med": 1.14
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "url": "https://vercel.com",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 380172,
+      "webclaw": {
+        "tokens_med": 1076,
+        "facts_med": 3,
+        "seconds_med": 0.31
+      },
+      "trafilatura": {
+        "tokens_med": 585,
+        "facts_med": 3,
+        "seconds_med": 0.23
+      },
+      "firecrawl": {
+        "tokens_med": 4029,
+        "facts_med": 3,
+        "seconds_med": 0.99
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "url": "https://anthropic.com",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 102911,
+      "webclaw": {
+        "tokens_med": 672,
+        "facts_med": 5,
+        "seconds_med": 0.31
+      },
+      "trafilatura": {
+        "tokens_med": 96,
+        "facts_med": 4,
+        "seconds_med": 0.21
+      },
+      "firecrawl": {
+        "tokens_med": 560,
+        "facts_med": 5,
+        "seconds_med": 0.81
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "url": "https://www.notion.com",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 109312,
+      "webclaw": {
+        "tokens_med": 13416,
+        "facts_med": 5,
+        "seconds_med": 0.93
+      },
+      "trafilatura": {
+        "tokens_med": 91,
+        "facts_med": 2,
+        "seconds_med": 0.65
+      },
+      "firecrawl": {
+        "tokens_med": 5261,
+        "facts_med": 5,
+        "seconds_med": 0.99
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "url": "https://stripe.com",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 243465,
+      "webclaw": {
+        "tokens_med": 81974,
+        "facts_med": 5,
+        "seconds_med": 0.71
+      },
+      "trafilatura": {
+        "tokens_med": 2418,
+        "facts_med": 0,
+        "seconds_med": 0.39
+      },
+      "firecrawl": {
+        "tokens_med": 8922,
+        "facts_med": 5,
+        "seconds_med": 1.04
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "url": "https://tavily.com",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 29964,
+      "webclaw": {
+        "tokens_med": 1361,
+        "facts_med": 5,
+        "seconds_med": 0.33
+      },
+      "trafilatura": {
+        "tokens_med": 182,
+        "facts_med": 3,
+        "seconds_med": 0.18
+      },
+      "firecrawl": {
+        "tokens_med": 1969,
+        "facts_med": 4,
+        "seconds_med": 0.75
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "url": "https://www.shopify.com",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 183738,
+      "webclaw": {
+        "tokens_med": 1939,
+        "facts_med": 3,
+        "seconds_med": 0.29
+      },
+      "trafilatura": {
+        "tokens_med": 595,
+        "facts_med": 3,
+        "seconds_med": 0.22
+      },
+      "firecrawl": {
+        "tokens_med": 5384,
+        "facts_med": 3,
+        "seconds_med": 0.98
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "url": "https://docs.python.org/3/",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 5275,
+      "webclaw": {
+        "tokens_med": 689,
+        "facts_med": 4,
+        "seconds_med": 0.12
+      },
+      "trafilatura": {
+        "tokens_med": 347,
+        "facts_med": 4,
+        "seconds_med": 0.04
+      },
+      "firecrawl": {
+        "tokens_med": 1623,
+        "facts_med": 4,
+        "seconds_med": 0.79
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "url": "https://react.dev",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 107406,
+      "webclaw": {
+        "tokens_med": 3332,
+        "facts_med": 5,
+        "seconds_med": 0.23
+      },
+      "trafilatura": {
+        "tokens_med": 763,
+        "facts_med": 3,
+        "seconds_med": 0.17
+      },
+      "firecrawl": {
+        "tokens_med": 4959,
+        "facts_med": 5,
+        "seconds_med": 0.92
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "url": "https://tailwindcss.com/docs/installation",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 113258,
+      "webclaw": {
+        "tokens_med": 779,
+        "facts_med": 4,
+        "seconds_med": 0.27
+      },
+      "trafilatura": {
+        "tokens_med": 430,
+        "facts_med": 2,
+        "seconds_med": 0.2
+      },
+      "firecrawl": {
+        "tokens_med": 813,
+        "facts_med": 4,
+        "seconds_med": 1.02
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "url": "https://nextjs.org/docs",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 228196,
+      "webclaw": {
+        "tokens_med": 968,
+        "facts_med": 4,
+        "seconds_med": 0.24
+      },
+      "trafilatura": {
+        "tokens_med": 631,
+        "facts_med": 4,
+        "seconds_med": 0.17
+      },
+      "firecrawl": {
+        "tokens_med": 885,
+        "facts_med": 4,
+        "seconds_med": 0.88
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "url": "https://github.com",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 234232,
+      "webclaw": {
+        "tokens_med": 1438,
+        "facts_med": 5,
+        "seconds_med": 0.33
+      },
+      "trafilatura": {
+        "tokens_med": 486,
+        "facts_med": 3,
+        "seconds_med": 0.09
+      },
+      "firecrawl": {
+        "tokens_med": 3058,
+        "facts_med": 4,
+        "seconds_med": 0.92
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 189406,
+      "webclaw": {
+        "tokens_med": 47823,
+        "facts_med": 5,
+        "seconds_med": 0.36
+      },
+      "trafilatura": {
+        "tokens_med": 37427,
+        "facts_med": 5,
+        "seconds_med": 0.28
+      },
+      "firecrawl": {
+        "tokens_med": 59326,
+        "facts_med": 5,
+        "seconds_med": 1.49
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/15/latent-reasoning/",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 3212,
+      "webclaw": {
+        "tokens_med": 724,
+        "facts_med": 4,
+        "seconds_med": 0.12
+      },
+      "trafilatura": {
+        "tokens_med": 0,
+        "facts_med": 0,
+        "seconds_med": 0.03
+      },
+      "firecrawl": {
+        "tokens_med": 525,
+        "facts_med": 2,
+        "seconds_med": 0.89
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "url": "https://paulgraham.com/essays.html",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 1786,
+      "webclaw": {
+        "tokens_med": 169,
+        "facts_med": 2,
+        "seconds_med": 0.9
+      },
+      "trafilatura": {
+        "tokens_med": 0,
+        "facts_med": 0,
+        "seconds_med": 0.22
+      },
+      "firecrawl": {
+        "tokens_med": 295,
+        "facts_med": 1,
+        "seconds_med": 0.71
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "url": "https://techcrunch.com",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 143309,
+      "webclaw": {
+        "tokens_med": 7265,
+        "facts_med": 5,
+        "seconds_med": 0.25
+      },
+      "trafilatura": {
+        "tokens_med": 397,
+        "facts_med": 5,
+        "seconds_med": 0.2
+      },
+      "firecrawl": {
+        "tokens_med": 11408,
+        "facts_med": 5,
+        "seconds_med": 1.21
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "url": "https://www.databricks.com",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 274051,
+      "webclaw": {
+        "tokens_med": 2001,
+        "facts_med": 4,
+        "seconds_med": 0.31
+      },
+      "trafilatura": {
+        "tokens_med": 311,
+        "facts_med": 4,
+        "seconds_med": 0.2
+      },
+      "firecrawl": {
+        "tokens_med": 5471,
+        "facts_med": 4,
+        "seconds_med": 1.34
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "url": "https://www.hashicorp.com",
+      "facts_count": 5,
+      "raw_tokens": 108510,
+      "webclaw": {
+        "tokens_med": 1501,
+        "facts_med": 5,
+        "seconds_med": 0.91
+      },
+      "trafilatura": {
+        "tokens_med": 0,
+        "facts_med": 0,
+        "seconds_med": 0.03
+      },
+      "firecrawl": {
+        "tokens_med": 4289,
+        "facts_med": 5,
+        "seconds_med": 0.91
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}
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diff --git a/benchmarks/run.sh b/benchmarks/run.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Reproduce the webclaw benchmark.
+# Requires: python3, tiktoken, trafilatura. Optional: firecrawl-py + FIRECRAWL_API_KEY.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+cd "$(dirname "$0")"
+
+# Build webclaw if not present
+if [ ! -x "../target/release/webclaw" ]; then
+    echo "→ building webclaw..."
+    (cd .. && cargo build --release)
+fi
+
+# Install python deps if missing
+missing=""
+python3 -c "import tiktoken"     2>/dev/null || missing+=" tiktoken"
+python3 -c "import trafilatura"  2>/dev/null || missing+=" trafilatura"
+if [ -n "${FIRECRAWL_API_KEY:-}" ]; then
+    python3 -c "import firecrawl" 2>/dev/null || missing+=" firecrawl-py"
+fi
+if [ -n "$missing" ]; then
+    echo "→ installing python deps:$missing"
+    python3 -m pip install --quiet $missing
+fi
+
+# Run
+python3 scripts/bench.py
diff --git a/benchmarks/scripts/bench.py b/benchmarks/scripts/bench.py
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+++ b/benchmarks/scripts/bench.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+webclaw benchmark — webclaw vs trafilatura vs firecrawl.
+
+Produces results/YYYY-MM-DD.json matching the schema in methodology.md.
+Sites and facts come from ../sites.txt and ../facts.json.
+Tokenizer: cl100k_base (GPT-4 / GPT-3.5 / text-embedding-3-*).
+
+Usage:
+    FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-...  python3 bench.py
+    python3 bench.py  # runs webclaw + trafilatura only
+
+Optional env:
+    WEBCLAW                 path to webclaw release binary (default: ../../target/release/webclaw)
+    RUNS                    runs per site (default: 3)
+    WEBCLAW_TIMEOUT         seconds (default: 30)
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+import json, os, re, statistics, subprocess, sys, time
+from pathlib import Path
+
+HERE = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
+ROOT = HERE.parent  # benchmarks/
+REPO_ROOT = ROOT.parent  # core/
+
+WEBCLAW = os.environ.get("WEBCLAW", str(REPO_ROOT / "target" / "release" / "webclaw"))
+RUNS = int(os.environ.get("RUNS", "3"))
+WC_TIMEOUT = int(os.environ.get("WEBCLAW_TIMEOUT", "30"))
+
+try:
+    import tiktoken
+    import trafilatura
+except ImportError as e:
+    sys.exit(f"missing dep: {e}. run: pip install tiktoken trafilatura firecrawl-py")
+
+ENC = tiktoken.get_encoding("cl100k_base")
+
+FC_KEY = os.environ.get("FIRECRAWL_API_KEY")
+FC = None
+if FC_KEY:
+    try:
+        from firecrawl import Firecrawl
+        FC = Firecrawl(api_key=FC_KEY)
+    except ImportError:
+        print("firecrawl-py not installed; skipping firecrawl column", file=sys.stderr)
+
+
+def load_sites() -> list[str]:
+    path = ROOT / "sites.txt"
+    out = []
+    for line in path.read_text().splitlines():
+        s = line.split("#", 1)[0].strip()
+        if s:
+            out.append(s)
+    return out
+
+
+def load_facts() -> dict[str, list[str]]:
+    return json.loads((ROOT / "facts.json").read_text())["facts"]
+
+
+def run_webclaw_llm(url: str) -> tuple[str, float]:
+    t0 = time.time()
+    r = subprocess.run(
+        [WEBCLAW, url, "-f", "llm", "-t", str(WC_TIMEOUT)],
+        capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=WC_TIMEOUT + 15,
+    )
+    return r.stdout or "", time.time() - t0
+
+
+def run_webclaw_raw(url: str) -> str:
+    r = subprocess.run(
+        [WEBCLAW, url, "--raw-html", "-t", str(WC_TIMEOUT)],
+        capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=WC_TIMEOUT + 15,
+    )
+    return r.stdout or ""
+
+
+def run_trafilatura(url: str) -> tuple[str, float]:
+    t0 = time.time()
+    try:
+        html = trafilatura.fetch_url(url)
+        out = ""
+        if html:
+            out = trafilatura.extract(
+                html, output_format="markdown",
+                include_links=True, include_tables=True, favor_recall=True,
+            ) or ""
+    except Exception:
+        out = ""
+    return out, time.time() - t0
+
+
+def run_firecrawl(url: str) -> tuple[str, float]:
+    if not FC:
+        return "", 0.0
+    t0 = time.time()
+    try:
+        r = FC.scrape(url, formats=["markdown"])
+        return (r.markdown or ""), time.time() - t0
+    except Exception:
+        return "", time.time() - t0
+
+
+def tok(s: str) -> int:
+    return len(ENC.encode(s, disallowed_special=())) if s else 0
+
+
+_WORD = re.compile(r"[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*")
+
+def hit_count(text: str, facts: list[str]) -> int:
+    """Case-insensitive; word-boundary for single-token alphanumeric facts,
+    substring for multi-word or non-alpha facts (like '99.999')."""
+    if not text:
+        return 0
+    low = text.lower()
+    count = 0
+    for f in facts:
+        f_low = f.lower()
+        if " " in f or not f.isalpha():
+            if f_low in low:
+                count += 1
+        else:
+            if re.search(r"\b" + re.escape(f_low) + r"\b", low):
+                count += 1
+    return count
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    sites = load_sites()
+    facts_by_url = load_facts()
+    print(f"running {len(sites)} sites × {3 if FC else 2} tools × {RUNS} runs")
+    if not FC:
+        print("  (no FIRECRAWL_API_KEY — skipping firecrawl column)")
+    print()
+
+    per_site = []
+    for i, url in enumerate(sites, 1):
+        facts = facts_by_url.get(url, [])
+        if not facts:
+            print(f"[{i}/{len(sites)}] {url}  SKIPPED — no facts in facts.json")
+            continue
+        print(f"[{i}/{len(sites)}] {url}")
+        raw_t = tok(run_webclaw_raw(url))
+
+        def run_one(fn):
+            out, seconds = fn(url)
+            return {"tokens": tok(out), "facts": hit_count(out, facts), "seconds": seconds}
+
+        runs = {"webclaw": [], "trafilatura": [], "firecrawl": []}
+        for _ in range(RUNS):
+            runs["webclaw"].append(run_one(run_webclaw_llm))
+            runs["trafilatura"].append(run_one(run_trafilatura))
+            if FC:
+                runs["firecrawl"].append(run_one(run_firecrawl))
+            else:
+                runs["firecrawl"].append({"tokens": 0, "facts": 0, "seconds": 0.0})
+
+        def med(tool, key):
+            return statistics.median(r[key] for r in runs[tool])
+
+        def med_ints(tool):
+            return {
+                "tokens_med":  int(med(tool, "tokens")),
+                "facts_med":   int(med(tool, "facts")),
+                "seconds_med": round(med(tool, "seconds"), 2),
+            }
+
+        per_site.append({
+            "url": url,
+            "facts_count": len(facts),
+            "raw_tokens": raw_t,
+            "webclaw":     med_ints("webclaw"),
+            "trafilatura": med_ints("trafilatura"),
+            "firecrawl":   med_ints("firecrawl"),
+        })
+        last = per_site[-1]
+        print(f"   raw={raw_t}  wc={last['webclaw']['tokens_med']}/{last['webclaw']['facts_med']}"
+              f"  tr={last['trafilatura']['tokens_med']}/{last['trafilatura']['facts_med']}"
+              f"  fc={last['firecrawl']['tokens_med']}/{last['firecrawl']['facts_med']}")
+
+    # aggregates
+    total_facts = sum(r["facts_count"] for r in per_site)
+
+    def agg(tool):
+        red_vals = [
+            (r["raw_tokens"] - r[tool]["tokens_med"]) / r["raw_tokens"] * 100
+            for r in per_site
+            if r["raw_tokens"] > 0 and r[tool]["tokens_med"] > 0
+        ]
+        return {
+            "reduction_mean":   round(statistics.mean(red_vals), 1) if red_vals else 0.0,
+            "reduction_median": round(statistics.median(red_vals), 1) if red_vals else 0.0,
+            "facts_preserved":  sum(r[tool]["facts_med"] for r in per_site),
+            "total_facts":      total_facts,
+            "fidelity_pct":     round(sum(r[tool]["facts_med"] for r in per_site) / total_facts * 100, 1) if total_facts else 0,
+            "latency_mean":     round(statistics.mean(r[tool]["seconds_med"] for r in per_site), 2),
+        }
+
+    result = {
+        "timestamp":           time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"),
+        "webclaw_version":     subprocess.check_output([WEBCLAW, "--version"], text=True).strip().split()[-1],
+        "trafilatura_version": trafilatura.__version__,
+        "firecrawl_enabled":   FC is not None,
+        "tokenizer":           "cl100k_base",
+        "runs_per_site":       RUNS,
+        "site_count":          len(per_site),
+        "total_facts":         total_facts,
+        "aggregates":          {t: agg(t) for t in ["webclaw", "trafilatura", "firecrawl"]},
+        "per_site":            per_site,
+    }
+
+    out_path = ROOT / "results" / f"{time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')}.json"
+    out_path.parent.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
+    out_path.write_text(json.dumps(result, indent=2))
+
+    print()
+    print("=" * 70)
+    print(f"{len(per_site)} sites, {total_facts} facts, median of {RUNS} runs")
+    print("=" * 70)
+    for t in ["webclaw", "trafilatura", "firecrawl"]:
+        a = result["aggregates"][t]
+        print(f"  {t:14s}  reduction_mean={a['reduction_mean']:5.1f}%"
+              f"  fidelity={a['facts_preserved']}/{a['total_facts']} ({a['fidelity_pct']}%)"
+              f"  latency={a['latency_mean']}s")
+    print()
+    print(f"  results → {out_path.relative_to(REPO_ROOT)}")
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())
diff --git a/benchmarks/sites.txt b/benchmarks/sites.txt
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmarks/sites.txt
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+# One URL per line. Comments (#) and blank lines ignored.
+# Sites chosen to span: SPA marketing, enterprise SaaS, documentation,
+# long-form content, news, and aggregator pages.
+
+# --- SPA marketing ---
+https://openai.com
+https://vercel.com
+https://anthropic.com
+https://www.notion.com
+https://stripe.com
+https://tavily.com
+https://www.shopify.com
+
+# --- Documentation ---
+https://docs.python.org/3/
+https://react.dev
+https://tailwindcss.com/docs/installation
+https://nextjs.org/docs
+https://github.com
+
+# --- Long-form content ---
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)
+https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/15/latent-reasoning/
+https://paulgraham.com/essays.html
+
+# --- News / commerce ---
+https://techcrunch.com
+
+# --- Enterprise SaaS ---
+https://www.databricks.com
+https://www.hashicorp.com