Recently, Gomez released information that Google Chrome was the fastest browser from real world testing. For most websites, IE8 is the most popular browser, so it will be an interesting piece of research. Also, I want to see if network speed has any affect on the ability of browser to the load the pages faster.
From a technical point of view browserscope , both browsers have network similar capabilities β both browsers can load from 6 hosts at once and have a maximum of 35 connections open at one time.
Chrome vs Ie8 Homepage testing β 1. All of the site were selected from the previous full download speed audit in July. Full results and videos of all 40 tests are available on the Google docs spreadsheet.
So if you want to experience the web as fast as possible, make sure your using Chrome. Do you need another reason to switch? I got hassled a little bit by the other presenters on why I gave this talk. I would have loved to give a talk on advanced web performance techniques like Varnish and Edge Side Includes or how to handle 10K requests a second on a VM. I do a lot of Research and Development on web performance, I do consulting and I talk to a lot of companies about web performance.
Some of the basic principles about how web sites scale is completely oblivious to some developers. In my talk I had to pick one site which has had all of the characteristics of bad web performance. Unfortunately the newstalkzb was the one that I choose. I could have been chosen several other websites. There are a lot of really really bad preforming websites. As a sector blogs and news sites have a lot of work to do to improve performance. I came up with an idea of what was the worst html techniques that no web developer in their right mind would use today.
