Comparing browsers - The Lombardi benchmark
By dgirard on Wednesday 22 October 2008, 21:42 - Permalink
Alex Moffat published an article where he compares the performance of Javascript engines : Chrome, Firefox, WebKit and IE.
Results are very surprising...
GWT performance with the latest JavaScript engines
Comments
This graphic is misleading. The title "Relative Browser performance" and lack of any other labelling suggests that IE7 is the most performant engine. Actually the reverse is true.
I know you only have to read the article to get the proper view but often people don't do that.
Yep, sorry about that. I wasn't expecting the image to be copied so I forgot to label the x axis.
Sorry to be picky (great job conducting the study BTW) but the label "Performance as a percentage of IE7 " doesn't nail it for me either - so Chrome has only 12% of the performance of IE7?
The trouble is the word "Performance" has positive connotations. Maybe if you changed it to "load time" or "render time" people would appreciate Chrome took "less time" rather than had "less performance".