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Saturday, March 14, 2009

IE8 faster than Firefox and Chrome - Microsoft Study


Microsoft has published a document which explains various browser components and how each can impact performance when benchmarking. The test indicate that IE8 is the fasted of them all.

"For the Internet Explorer 8 performance video we published, we chose the Top 25 websites in the world as measured by comScore to reflect the sites users are most likely to visit on the web. The following table shows results from the benchmark testing process for those 25 websites tested on the following browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer 8."

Page speed ranked by browser

As noted earlier, Microsoft chose approximately 25 websites for daily testing, and tens of thousands on a monthly basis. Any list of websites to be used for benchmarking must contain a variety of websites, including international websites, to help ensure a complete picture of performance as users would
experience on the Internet.


*Microsoft Vista Help Forum

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