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The results: Android's browser posted faster load times on 84% of the 45,000 pageviews. On average, pages loaded in 2.1 seconds on Android -- about 50% better than the iPhone. Of course, you're only talking about one second here, which most people probably wouldn't really notice.
One of the more interesting takeaways from the Blaze report is that the company didn't find a correlation between the improved JavaScript engines in iOS 4.3 and Android 2.3 and overall browsing speed. "We naturally assumed that the new versions will show significantly better load times," states the Blaze post. "But we assumed wrong. When comparing iPhone 4.3 to iPhone 4.2 we saw no noticeable improvement, and Android 2.3 was only marginally faster than Android 2.2."
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Subscribe to commentssattaraMar 17th 2011 12:00PM
Bogus study = bogus result
http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/03/17/study-comparing-android-to-iphone-web-browsing-speed-flawed/
TonyMar 17th 2011 12:33PM
Ignoring the whole JavaScript and embedded browsers issue that Loop Insight has there, the fact remains that documents that would not be affected by those enhancements in Safari loaded one second faster on Android as well. Even that article admits that in a small caveat at the end.
There are a lot of studies on download speed. A lot of people make their decision to stay on a site within the first few seconds. That one second, I'd say especially on a mobile platform where people are arguably "on the go", can be important. Especially when you consider how many times a person loads a page or document over the entire week, month or year.
Mac LenderMar 17th 2011 8:20PM
You need to update your story its misleading based on the flawed test.
chesamaMar 17th 2011 6:24PM
as someone who deals with page load speed as part of his job, i can tell you that EVERYBODY notices a 1 second difference.