turbineseaplane
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Would we be saying this if it was Apple‘s browser that was faster?
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Google Claims Android Is Now Faster Than iPhone for Web Browsing
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Would we be saying this if it was Apple‘s browser that was faster?
47% of half a second is a pointless claim in my opinion.
Once you’ve got fast internet at home, you stop caring how long things take to load because most smart phones that have come out in the last 3-5 years are more than fast enough at loading a standard/average webpage.
Still if you use Chrome and you can notice the difference then awesome.
Once you’ve got fast internet at home, you stop caring how long things take to load because most smart phones that have come out in the last 3-5 years are more than fast enough at loading a standard/average webpage.
Still if you use Chrome and you can notice the difference then awesome.
jarman92
macrumors 68020
Genelec8341
macrumors regular
I'm pretty sure Brave browser is built on Chrome, but I can watch YT on Brave without Ads and without building a profile for Google.
True, safari is super buggy nowadays, thanks god firefox and brave exists, no google no apple bs
Criss P.
macrumors member
I agree, safari is good enough for my needs but I do feel like it’s lost its way a bit.
I remember every year Apple saying safari can load this and that x amount faster just through optimisation.
Honestly I don’t think it’s gotten any worse day to day outside of Apples slip is software quality but hopefully iOS and Mac OS 27 can deliver the Snow Leopard like overall we’ve needed for years.
Forget adding random new features, just deliver on what’s delayed and optimise and improve reliability on what already exists.
SactoGuy18
macrumors 603
It's not a fair comparison because in iOS, Google Chrome is essentially just a "skin" over the WebKit web layout engine that is part of iOS. In Android, Chrome is running Google's own Blink web layout engine.
TBF if web browsers on iOS weren't just rebadged crapari, sorry safari, then iOS would have quicker web browsing I'd imagine
OferJ
macrumors newbie
There was so much cherry-picking of results done to get to this that they must have stripped an entire cherry orchard
Fastest web browsing is nice to have, however, confidentiality, privacy and security are most important in current cyber eras. Fortunately and thankfully, Apple product operating systems provide confidentiality, privacy and security protections that governments can trust. Apple products are the only one trusted product in the planet. In addition to that, Apple is the only technology company that has corporate retail stores all over major cities that serve their customers for any needs in convenience. Therefore, I only can trust Apple for technology needs.
Google today said that Android has set a new record for mobile web performance, making it the fastest mobile platform for web browsing.
The newest Android devices have set new records on web performance benchmarks like Speedometer and LoadLine, which Google attributes to "deep vertical integration across hardware, the Android OS, and the Chrome engine."
Speedometer simulates real-world user actions to measure interaction latency when using a web browser, and it's a metric that major browser engine developers use to determine responsiveness. According to Google, a high Speedometer score correlates to a "more fluid, snappy feeling when you tap, scroll, or type on a website."
In charts published by Google, three unnamed Android devices earned higher Speedometer 3.1 scores than an unnamed "competing mobile phone platform," which is likely iOS.
LoadLine is an emerging benchmark test developed by the Chrome and Android teams that simulates the complete process of loading a website to determine how fast a webpage appears after a link is clicked. Android phones score up to 47 percent higher on the LoadLine test than non-Android competitors, according to Google.
Google says that it collaborated with select SoC and OEM partners to optimize Chrome and kernel scheduler policies to get the faster web browsing speeds. With the improvements, some Android flagship phones have improved their Speedometer and LoadLine scores by 20 to 60 percent year-over-year. For users, the change translates to four to six percent faster page loads and six to nine percent faster high-percentile interactions.
Article Link: Google Claims Android Is Now Faster Than iPhone for Web Browsing
They can say whatever they want. No way to prove it in real world usage and they’ll blame that all day long.
They’re so confident, they don’t even name the phone models, OS version, nor browser version.
Google today said that Android has set a new record for mobile web performance, making it the fastest mobile platform for web browsing.
The newest Android devices have set new records on web performance benchmarks like Speedometer and LoadLine, which Google attributes to "deep vertical integration across hardware, the Android OS, and the Chrome engine."
Speedometer simulates real-world user actions to measure interaction latency when using a web browser, and it's a metric that major browser engine developers use to determine responsiveness. According to Google, a high Speedometer score correlates to a "more fluid, snappy feeling when you tap, scroll, or type on a website."
In charts published by Google, three unnamed Android devices earned higher Speedometer 3.1 scores than an unnamed "competing mobile phone platform," which is likely iOS.
LoadLine is an emerging benchmark test developed by the Chrome and Android teams that simulates the complete process of loading a website to determine how fast a webpage appears after a link is clicked. Android phones score up to 47 percent higher on the LoadLine test than non-Android competitors, according to Google.
Google says that it collaborated with select SoC and OEM partners to optimize Chrome and kernel scheduler policies to get the faster web browsing speeds. With the improvements, some Android flagship phones have improved their Speedometer and LoadLine scores by 20 to 60 percent year-over-year. For users, the change translates to four to six percent faster page loads and six to nine percent faster high-percentile interactions.
Article Link: Google Claims Android Is Now Faster Than iPhone for Web Browsing
daneoni
macrumors G5
Ah yes, gaming benchmarks in a similar way to what Qualcomm and Samsung used to do. 🙄
So, Google is touting that Chrome is faster using a benchmark test developed by Google to test Chrome, and comparing it to an unknown competing operating system running and unknown OS version, unknown browser version, and unknown hardware. Is it comparing Chrome on that hardware and OS, or a different browser as well? What else was running on the other phone?
This is a laughable comparison...I can easily show that Safari is faster than Chrome if I use a five year old Android phone, but that's not really relevant if you want to know what's actually going on. If you want to compare things properly you have to lay out all of the test parameters for evaluation, without that it's just as valid as if you made up numbers. If Google really did this then they should have included all of the information of how it was done and allow others to replicate the test, if that's possible...their benchmark software just might run slower on iOS, making the whole comparison even more invalid.
I don't understand why companies do this kind of thing, it just makes me not trust anything they have to say about their products when they do things like this that appear to be obvious lies.
This is a laughable comparison...I can easily show that Safari is faster than Chrome if I use a five year old Android phone, but that's not really relevant if you want to know what's actually going on. If you want to compare things properly you have to lay out all of the test parameters for evaluation, without that it's just as valid as if you made up numbers. If Google really did this then they should have included all of the information of how it was done and allow others to replicate the test, if that's possible...their benchmark software just might run slower on iOS, making the whole comparison even more invalid.
I don't understand why companies do this kind of thing, it just makes me not trust anything they have to say about their products when they do things like this that appear to be obvious lies.
turbineseaplane
macrumors Penryn
If Google could run their own rendering engine on iOS, Chrome would probably absolutely smoke Safari.
So:
- They wrote the test
- They have optimized the OS to treat chrome special for the test
- They have optimized chrome for the test
And chrome is only that much better? how extremely much must chrome be terrible if that's the best result they can get?
- They wrote the test
- They have optimized the OS to treat chrome special for the test
- They have optimized chrome for the test
And chrome is only that much better? how extremely much must chrome be terrible if that's the best result they can get?
True. Every android user I see has to carry a charger with them. My 15PM is at 60% by bedtime.
WarmWinterHat
Suspended
Agreed.
I do very little web browsing on my phone, but Safari kinda sucks. I end up using Firefox Focus most of the time.
My wife gets almost 2 days on her two year old Pixel 8. I get about the same with my 16 Pro.
turbineseaplane
macrumors Penryn
I’ve gotten used to Firefox mobile just because I really enjoy having my bookmarks, history and tabs accessible easily from my desktop and iPad Firefox instances.
Dirk Pieters
macrumors 6502
I honestly don’t understand why anyone would use a browser or os made by an advertising company that has been convicted multiple times for privacy reasons and continues to be under investigation.
