Android Web Browser Faster Than iPhone — Or Is It? - parksmaland

If you desire the quickest smartphone Browser, suffer an Android sound instead of an iPhone.

Only if you want the fastest Browser on a smartphone, definitely get an iPhone instead of an Android ring.

Huh?

These contradictory statements are the resolution of two smartphone web browser speed tests, released inside a month of for each one other. The latest comes from Blaze Software, which claims that Samsung's Link S smartphone with Android 2.3 loaded non-mobile optimized Web pages more than a second faster happening average than an iPhone 4 spurting iOS 4.3. The speed difference for mobile Websites was negligible. An before study from Compuware Gomez, however, says the iPhone loads pages nearly 17 seconds faster on average than Android.

Who are these companies that came up with drastically different test results? They're both in the clientele of optimizing Websites, selling their services to companies who want their pages to load faster. In other words, they some do a lot of Website speed testing, and neither of them are affiliated with Apple or Google.

As for methodological analysis, Blaze gathered data from 45,000 downloads from Destiny 1000 Websites concluded 3G and Wisconsin-Fi connections, loading each page threefold, according to Bugged. Gomez used data from its own business enterprise customers, analyzing 282 jillio Web pages served crossways 200 popular Websites. Put differently, both companies used real-world testing instead of benchmarks or closed networks.

And yet, their results are all assorted.

Floating browser speed study from Compuware Gomez

Maybe the big takeout here is extraordinary that we've identified for some time: browser speed tests can be pretty unreliable. With echt-worldwide examination, there too many variables, such as network congestion and host problems. Squinting networks and benchmarks, on the other hand, aren't very representative of what real users will experience.

At any rate, if you'rhenium complaining that your super-artistic movement smartphone renders pages a second or two slower than the contender, you Crataegus oxycantha want to dance step back, take a walk and rethink your priorities.

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