Chrome Speed Test Video

[SphinxnihpS]

Hilarious!

 

[AndroidVageta]

Cached.

 

[ShawnD1]

I don't get the point of these tests. Chrome is not faster than any other browser. I'm sorry but it's not. When it takes 10 seconds to download the entire page, it really doesn't help that DNS caching or the javascript engine made it load 0.05 seconds faster

 

[Saga]

I don't get the point of these tests. Chrome is not faster than any other browser. I'm sorry but it's not. When it takes 10 seconds to download the entire page, it really doesn't help that DNS caching or the javascript engine made it load 0.05 seconds faster

The funnier thing is that on a REAL computer (quad core, fast RAM, SSD) Firefox is still faster than Chrome. =P

 

[QueBert]

I don't get the point of these tests. Chrome is not faster than any other browser. I'm sorry but it's not. When it takes 10 seconds to download the entire page, it really doesn't help that DNS caching or the javascript engine made it load 0.05 seconds faster

I disagree, pages fully open up quicker, to the point where I see everything and can scroll sooner in Safari or Chrome than Firefox or IE. I don't have tests I've ran to benchmark this. But I can definitely feel the difference. Chrome & Safari render pages quicker on my system, not by a huge amount but I definitely notice a bit more pep to them.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

That. Was. AWESOME!

 

[SphinxnihpS]

It's a funny video, but if you think another browser is faster, your'e funnier.

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

Out of curiosity, I went to allrecipes.com in Chrome. It loaded in under 1 second.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Our of curiosity, I went to allrecipes.com in Chrome. It loaded in under 1 second.

Tried it out in firefox too. Except for the time it took to contact the server, due to the crapy network, the website loaded basically instantly.

 

[PricklyPete]

Awesome video regardless of how fast it is compared to others. That's just good marketing.

 

[James Bond]

I don't get the point of these tests. Chrome is not faster than any other browser. I'm sorry but it's not. When it takes 10 seconds to download the entire page, it really doesn't help that DNS caching or the javascript engine made it load 0.05 seconds faster

Wrong

 

[AndroidVageta]

Tried it out in firefox too. Except for the time it took to contact the server, due to the crapy network, the website loaded basically instantly.

I second this. On my 25mb connection besides the connection to their server speed goes the web page popped up instantly...

I use Firefox...and have nothing against Chrome or anything...but marketing like this, while it might be true and real, makes every other browser out there look like some molasses slow experience, which it isn't. Oh well, that is the nature of advertising I guess...show that your product is better than the others when its really not?

 

[vshah]

I second this. On my 25mb connection besides the connection to their server speed goes the web page popped up instantly...

I use Firefox...and have nothing against Chrome or anything...but marketing like this, while it might be true and real, makes every other browser out there look like some molasses slow experience, which it isn't. Oh well, that is the nature of advertising I guess...show that your product is better than the others when its really not?

this doesn't make any other browser look like anything. it just makes chrome look fast.

 

[dwell]

Firefox with Adblock Plus destroys Chrome because it doesn't have to download 10MB of ads per page. Not to mention it's not phoning home to Google every time you type in the URL bar.

 

[DangerAardvark]

Has anyone actually seen Pandora load that fast? It takes around 6 sec for me with Chrome.

 

[dwell]

And fake. Watch the video in fullscreen 720p. It's a local file in the address bar. Fail.

 

[ShawnD1]

Out of curiosity, I went to allrecipes.com in Chrome. It loaded in under 1 second.

Mine took way the fuck longer than this. Luckily Chrome keeps a breakdown of how long each thing takes:
0.306s for documents
0.102s for style sheets
0.783s for images
1.32s for scripts
waiting
6.10 seconds total load time
3 errors
1 warning

(the color looks weird because it's an 8-bit png)


Let's try Anandtech.com and see how that goes.
1.52s for documents
0.264s for style sheets
7.23s for images
1.79s for scripts
waiting
17.47 seconds total load time
22 errors
2 warnings

I am totally baffled. It's almost as if the speed has NOTHING to do with the software and everything to do with hardware. Next you crazy kids will try telling me that my Apple computer isn't magically 3x faster just because of the operating system.

My connection is 3mb ADSL. Max effective download speed is about 320kb/s.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

And fake. Watch the video in fullscreen 720p. It's a local file in the address bar. Fail.

I did notice the URL seemed to be a bit long.

But the thing I noticed most was that it seemed to load upward. From my computing experience, stuff always loads downward.

 

[TridenT]

I did notice the URL seemed to be a bit long.

But the thing I noticed most was that it seemed to load upward. From my computing experience, stuff always loads downward.

Maybe it's a monitor thing or something, but I thought monitors started from the top too. :/

 

[Fox5]

In actual usage on most pages, firefox, opera, chrome, and safari are all about the same speed. Their javascript performance may differ, but not be enough to really notice.
Internet Explorer however, is dog slow. Any web page that uses dynamic content is noticeably sluggish, and heavy web apps really suck on it. Heavy web apps can even show the difference in js performance between firefox and chrome.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Enjoy the video. Who cares about the browser really?

Anyone know who directed it?

 

[silverpig]

Maybe it's a monitor thing or something, but I thought monitors started from the top too. :/

It is from the top. On the site they say that in order to get the monitor bright enough for the fast camera they took out the fluorescent tube, added a bunch of tungsten backlights, then flipped the monitor over 180 degrees for some mapping thing and then told the video card driver to flip the image upside down.