Google Claims Android Is Now Faster Than iPhone for Web Browsing

[Gabebear]

Now do battery life

Ya, I'm not sure what exactly LoadLine was meant to test or if it even works on non-Android mobile devices. That the developer of the benchmark scores highly on said benchmark... is not impressive.

Testing loading pages and watching power draw makes sense. Apple has had a clear advantage with Safari for battery tests since forever.

 

[turbineseaplane]

That's all well and good. But browsing on any device these days, for the most part, is pretty good. I don't know that bragging about this is much of anything, really.

I’m certainly fine with this opinion, and mostly agree, but I do think folks would be crowing about it if Apple’s browser was the faster one.

Suddenly, since it’s not, it doesn’t matter or people are talking about other metrics instead.

 

[Henrikr]

Safari is the worst web browser. Only 7 of 10 websites works on Safari. I dont care about speed, I care about REABILITY !

 

[Unregistered 4U]

The REAL thing they’re communicating is that they’ve successfully gotten a very large number of websites written specifically to perform well with Chrome. Safari isn’t written to execute well only with sites that have been create with tools specifically to run well in Safari.

 

[turbineseaplane]

The REAL thing they’re communicating is that they’ve successfully gotten a very large number of websites written specifically to perform well with Chrome. Safari isn’t written to execute well only with sites that have been create with tools specifically to run well in Safari.

And as a normal consumer and web user, all I want is a reliable and functional browser experience.

If Apple can’t get more people to care about their web browser, that’s their problem.

 

[allpar]

FWIW, Google controls most of the advertising on the web, and can in theory delay its ads showing up on Safari ever so slightly to rig the test so...

I do get pissed off when someone writes a site that only works in Chrome. It's rare. Most often if a site doesn't work in Safari, it works in Firebox.

 

[N47H]

Bit of an irrelevant statistic, it doesn’t matter how many milliseconds your choice of phone OS or browser can save you, you’re still at the mercy of connection speed and congestion. In real world settings you aren’t using the two phones side by side on the same network, so any slight delay you’d assuming attribute to your network and not your device anyway.

 

[pigeonguy]

Slower than Chrome… at a benchmark made by the Chrome team.

lol.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Slower than Chrome… at a benchmark made by the Chrome team.

lol.

Keep in mind, Apple did a demo for Apple Intelligence that was completely fabricated

 

[repoman016]

So, how do these ~5% speed increases compare to the performance change when you run a decent adblocker?

Videos running slow? Click here to find out why!


nahh I'm good youtube....just play the video

 

[HouseLannister]

I use Android daily and haven't launched Chrome on it in years. That bottom tab bar experience is still trash. Vivaldi does a much better job. Hope it gets a lift from this kernel scheduler as well.

Also, really curious how the battery life on the Chrome/Android did against the Safari/iOS combo. What was the cost of this increased performance and is it worth it?

 

[sw1tcher]

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."

Setting new records on web performance benchmarks like Speedometer and LoadLine... and user tracking and data harvesting. 😉

 

[klasma]

The more compelling selling point of Android browsers is that they don’t reload tabs all the time.

 

[mlayer]

And as a normal consumer and web user, all I want is a reliable and functional browser experience.

If Apple can’t get more people to care about their web browser, that’s their problem.

People used to say this about Internet Explorer too. Wonder how that ended up...

 

[CarAnalogy]

Yes probably, but that doesn’t help iOS users. I really wanted to use Safari on Mac but too many websites I need were just slow and they aren’t in Chrome. Probably as much fault as credit to Google on that one for successfully monopolizing desktop browsing.

To be clear I don’t mean they were a little bit slow, they were painfully unusably slow in Safari. Heavy web apps clearly designed for Chrome.

I kind of want Blink on iOS for practical purposes but I also kind of don’t because then they really will have a total monopoly. And don’t mention Gecko.

 

[racerhomie]

Would we be saying this if it was Apple‘s browser that was faster?

It already is plenty fast even on older hardware. Plus macOS and iOS Safari sips battery

 

[d-klumpp]

Another "Mac vs PC" moment, but speed at a single metric isn't the entire experience!

 

[Rafagon]

So, even if this is true, it only applies to those Android users who have chosen to use Chrome as their browser?

 

[racerhomie]

If Google could run their own rendering engine on iOS, Chrome would probably absolutely smoke Safari.

And smoke the battery life too!

 

[Ctrlos]

Faster at loading ads perhaps! Safari with ABP is infinitely faster than Samsung Internet with the same plugin.

 

[jwolf6589]

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

The Android Virus does have some advantages over the iPhone we all know this. However the drawbacks are way too many specially for those that use all Apple devices.

 

[Crickster]

Apple should be forced to let Chrome and all other browsers use AdBlock extensions.

 

[johannnn]

On macOS many people use Chrome because it has a billion extensions

But on iOS lol? I don't see any reason.

I'll stick to Safari on all my platforms

 

[horsefeathers]

Even IF it’s true, we’re talking milliseconds? Maybe 1 second faster? Not a selling point when internet on any device is fast enough as it is

A second adds up over time. Save 60 seconds in one day of real-world usage and that’s 1 minute per day. That alone would save you 6 total hours a year.

 

[alchemistmuffin]

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."

Yeah. That won’t cut it come in fall. iOS 27 is rumored to have new Safari that is much faster thanks to how much optimization they did on iOS, presumably making it fastest browser on mobile.

So it’ll be short lived victory for Google because technically they are already behind on WebKit.