April 22nd, 2008

Friends recommended me this page to test the browser performance:

dhtml benchmark

This test is especially good if one needs to test the event handling performance in the browser engine.

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2 Responses to “Browser performance test”

1. h-kachal Says:
   April 22nd, 2008 at 8:31 pm

   I just see a load of different size and colour balls bouncing around the screen!! What is it telling me?

2. George Says:
   May 18th, 2008 at 7:21 pm

   To get an idea which browser engine is best just do the following:

   1.start Mozilla and WebKit
   2.copy the test url (http://people.opera.com/~pettern/performance-1.html)
   3. click Go in Mozilla first and then(!) in WebKit

   What you gonna see is increasing number of bouncing balls (with counter)
   as well as frames per second display rate in each browser.
   The JavaScript functionality used in the test is rather diverse:
   from animations with new doc elements and Splines to Math and colors.

   And results I got with WebKit build 33475 and started like ./GtkLauncher are very impressive: even though it started the test 1 or 2 seconds after competitor it quickly reached 105 balls (with 29 fps)
   while Mozilla (Gecko 1.8.1.10) was still trying to cope with 25 balls (31 fps).

   Second run with same WebKit (by the way build without a glitch) started 2 seconds after Mozilla 2.0.0.14 (Gecko 1.8.1.14) produced even more amazing results:
   when WebKit reached 100 balls (running 46 fps)
   Mozilla was stuck with miserable 30 balls and it was slowing to 11 fps.

   Quite a difference!

   Seems like there’s no serious competitor left for WebKit
   May be Opera can come up with something?
   Or sorry, they are in love with money too much
   and do not need to be mentioned here ))

   P.S. SunSpider suit of tests (http://webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html)
   also tells that WebKit engine is 2-3 times faster than Mozilla.

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