The research division of Compuware, announced Chrome the fastest browser on the planet. In large-scale tests conducted by the publication, take into account the download time of more than 200popular web pages real users, rather than artificial benchmarks. Within a month, on users' computers had been installed a special "counter", which measured the time fully loaded web sites.
The leader of the download speed of web content has become Chrome 12. The average download speed of this browser page was 3.433 seconds. The second took place in the ranking, not strange, Firefox. Average when using the fifth version of the browser was about 3.9 seconds.
The most modest results showed Safari and Internet Explorer. Safari loads pages 5 to 4.5 seconds, and Internet Explorer 9, it takes on average a little more. Worst performance among all versions, participated in the study, Safari 4 - more than 6 seconds.
The researchers have ignored the "Opera", this browser is very popular in Russia
As a second indicator Gomez experts have also examined the rendering speed - the time needed to screen appeared the visible portion of the page. On this indicator ahead of Chrome Firefox 5 12 - 2.18 seconds vs. 2.374 seconds, respectively.
The researchers emphasize that the results of the company Compuware is based on individual measurements of 1.86 billion on computers that real users.
