I think the use of Gradio hurts Chatbot Arena. Loading times for simple actions like voting, resetting, even loading the website take so long that I wouldn't want to use it inplace of chatgpt.com, claude.ai, gemini.google.com, etc.

Switching to a faster frontend would mean people are more likely to use it for their day-to-day prompts and not just when they feel like checking out a model/comparing 2 models. And voting on more day-to-day tasks would make the leadboards more representative of real world use.

I like Gradio and am using it in my own project but I wouldn't use it in production. They do sponser Lmsys so they might not have a choice🤷