- May 26, 2014
- 1,051
Disclaimer: All tests were purely homemade and are subject to some errors and may not be very precisely accurate, but who cares
Equipment Used:
- Dell Inspiron 546: AMD Athlon II X4 215 @ 2.7 gHZ, 4 GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD5450 (1GB Video Memory)
(Test Machine)
- MacBook Pro: Intel Core i5 @ 2.6 gHZ, 8 GB RAM, Intel Iris Pro
(Research Machine)
- iPhone 5C: Timer Only
- All Software Will Be Turned Off when running tests, including Anti Virus software, Ad blocking software, and all other non-essential tasks.
Tests Used:
Speed:
Cold Start
Load Scobleizer: Scobleizer - Entrepreneur in Residence
Load Precentral: webOS Nation | webOS Forums, News, Reviews, Apps and Help
Load CultOfMac: Cult of Mac
Benchmark:
Kraken: Kraken JavaScript Benchmark (kraken-1.1 test suite - In Progress...)
Browser Mark: Basemark Web 3.0 | Main page
B-Mark: BMark - A HTML5 3D Benchmark
Octane: http://octane-benchmark.googlecode.com/svn/latest/index.html
HTML5 Test: The HTML5 test - How well does your browser support HTML5?
Fishbowl: https://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/performance/fishbowl/
JetStream: BrowserBench.org — Browser Benchmarks
Browsers That Have Been Tested:
IE
Firefox
Chrome
Opera
Vivaldi
Maxthon
Waterfox
Yandex
The Browsers Being Tested (Round 3):
Pale Moon
SlimJet
Comodo Dragon
Maxthon Nitro
More Browsers Currently Up To Testing (Round 4):
SeaMonkey
Please Send Me More Suggestions To Test More Browsers.
Ready To Place Your Bets?
Round 1 (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera):
Cold Start:
-Checking For Stray Processes.
No? Let's Go!
Internet Explorer: 20.30 seconds
Mozilla Firefox: 20.13 seconds
Google Chrome: 7.63 seconds
Opera: 14.36 seconds
Warm Start:
-Stop It Google Chrome! Stop Running Stray Processes!
Internet Explorer: 4.56 seconds
Mozilla Firefox: 4.78 seconds
Google Chrome: 2.08 seconds
Opera: 3.38 seconds
Website Booting:
The way we judge when the website has been fully booted is if all content, including adverts are shown, and the website icon on the tab has been fully displayed.
Scobleizer:
Internet Explorer: 6.71 seconds
Mozilla Firefox: 8.94 seconds
Google Chrome: 6.90 seconds
Opera: 9.25 seconds
Precentral:
Internet Explorer: 4.56 seconds
Mozilla Firefox: 3.25 seconds
Google Chrome: 4.40 seconds
Opera: 4.66 seconds
CultOfMac:
Internet Explorer: 7.88 seconds
Mozilla Firefox: 6.06 seconds
Google Chrome: 15 + seconds (Disqualified according to technical terms)
Opera: 12.05 seconds
Browser Benchmarks:
When testing, all non-essential running processes and add ons/extensions were terminated to prevent any incorrect measurement of the browser's performance.
Kraken:
Lower Score is better, determined by JavaScript performance.
Confidence Intervals are Ignored in the chart.
Internet Explorer: 5641.4 ms +/- 2.4%
Mozilla Firefox: 3379.3 ms +/- 4.1 %
Google Chrome: 2966.2 ms +/- 1.3%
Opera: 2943.0 ms +/- 1.0%
BrowserMark:
BrowserMark decided to throw a 404 error so no BrowserMark for you!
B-Mark:
Higher Score is better, determined by average FPS during graphical tests.
Internet Explorer: 147
Mozilla Firefox: 340
Google Chrome: 914
Opera: 1120
Octane:
Higher Score is better, determined by JavaScript performance (according to Google, in more real-life circumstances such as highly animated websites)
Internet Explorer: 6931
Mozilla Firefox: 9676
Google Chrome: 12693
Opera: 12391
HTML5 Test:
Higher Score is better, determined by how well the browser supports HTML 5
Internet Explorer: 336
Mozilla Firefox: 434
Google Chrome: 521
Opera: 520
Fishbowl:
Higher Score is better, determined by the number of fish withheld with 55+ fps.
Internet Explorer: 1
Mozilla Firefox: The Test Malfunctioned Due To Random Errors
Google Chrome: 21
Opera: 18
JetStream:
Higher Score is better, determined by effectiveness at handling advanced JavaScript workloads.
Internet Explorer: 50.53
Mozilla Firefox: 38.52
Google Chrome: 77.39
Opera: 76.53
Conclusions:
In terms of the Speed Tests (Booting and Loading),
Google Chrome took 2 tests,
Mozilla Firefox took 2 tests,
Internet Explorer took 1 test.
Google Chrome started up quicker than any other browser both with a cold start or warm start even after I had to manually terminate the processes after I closed it down. However, Mozilla Firefox took the lead in the Speed tests, outperforming Google Chrome significantly, and Internet Explorer (surprisingly) loaded the fastest in one test, narrowly outperforming Chrome.
Then came the benchmarks...
Google Chrome took 4 tests,
Opera took 2.
(The ones that Opera took were Mozilla's Kraken and B-Mark)
Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox performed quite poorly, not coming close to taking any of the benchmarks. Unfortunately, Firefox also glitched out on the Fishbowl test, making me disqualify it from the benchmark. Google Chrome, by far, outperformed the competition by a comfortably large margin.
Final Results:
Speed: Chrome/Firefox
Benchmark: Chrome
The winner, from these tests, is Google Chrome.
Round 2 (Vivaldi, Maxthon, Waterfox, Yandex):
Cold Start:
Vivaldi: 6.81 seconds
Maxthon: 5.63 seconds
Waterfox: 15.96 seconds
Yandex: 6.11 seconds
Warm Start:
Vivaldi: 4.76 seconds
Maxthon: 4.45 seconds
Waterfox: 6.25 seconds
Yandex: 5.99 seconds
Website Booting:
The way we judge when the website has been fully booted is if all content, including adverts are shown, and the website icon on the tab has been fully displayed.
Scobleizer:
Vivaldi: 6.55 seconds
Maxthon: 4.33 seconds
Waterfox: 11.05 seconds
Yandex: 10.14 seconds
Precentral:
Vivaldi: 7.66 seconds
Maxthon: 3.23 seconds
Waterfox: 5.00 seconds
Yandex: 6.30 seconds
CultOfMac:
Vivaldi: 11.25 seconds
Maxthon: 5.11 seconds
Waterfox: 8.05 seconds
Yandex: 7.56 seconds
Browser Benchmarks:
When testing, all non-essential running processes and add ons/extensions were terminated to prevent any incorrect measurement of the browser's performance.
Kraken:
Lower Score is better, determined by JavaScript performance.
Confidence Intervals are Ignored in the chart.
Vivaldi: 2931.4 ms +/- 1.2%
Maxthon: 3365.9 ms +/- 1.6%
Waterfox: 3057.0 ms +/- 1.8%
Yandex: 2958.2 ms +/- 0.5 %
B-Mark:
Higher Score is better, determined by average FPS during graphical tests.
Vivaldi: 966
Maxthon: 464
Waterfox: 463
Yandex: 1076
Octane:
Higher Score is better, determined by JavaScript performance (according to Google, in more real-life circumstances such as highly animated websites)
Vivaldi: 12678
Maxthon: 10140
Waterfox: 9715
Yandex: 13269
HTML5 Test:
Higher Score is better, determined by how well the browser supports HTML 5
Vivaldi: 521
Maxthon: 467
Waterfox: 493
Yandex: 521
Fishbowl:
Higher Score is better, determined by the number of fish withheld with 55+ fps.
Vivaldi: 10
Maxthon: 0
Waterfox: 10
Yandex: 25
JetStream:
Higher Score is better, determined by effectiveness at handling advanced JavaScript workloads.
Vivaldi: 78.80
Maxthon: 91.70
Waterfox: 59.11
Yandex: 75.99
Conclusion:
In Speed,
Maxthon took all 5.
Maxthon aced all 5 speed tests, starting the quickest of all the Round 2 browsers.In fact, it would've even beaten Chrome in the Cold Start category. When it came to loading websites, Maxthon was no slouch either. Loading at crazy fast times compared to every other browser, it definitely shines in this respect.
The benchmarks tests then came about...
Yandex took 3 (And tied 1),
Vivaldi took 1 (And tied 1),
and Maxthon took 1.
Yandex definitely showed its true colors in the benchmark testing. However, something to note is that Maxthon achieved a record high 91.70 in the JetStream benchmark, which nobody in either of the two rounds came close to.
Round 3 (Pale Moon, SlimJet, Comodo Dragon, Maxthon Nitro)
In this round we have several browsers which are peculiar in all different ways. All of these browsers are forks of the Gecko or WebKit engines, with different reasons for existing.
Cold Start:
Pale Moon: 5.96 seconds
SlimJet: 5.06 seconds
Comodo Dragon: 10.69 seconds
Maxthon Nitro: 3.93 seconds
Warm Start:
Pale Moon: 2.86 seconds
SlimJet: 3.48 seconds
Comodo Dragon: 7.08 seconds
Maxthon Nitro: 1.21 seconds
Website Booting:
The way we judge when the website has been fully booted is if all content, including adverts are shown, and the website icon on the tab has been fully displayed.
Scobleizer:
Pale Moon: 3.70 seconds
SlimJet: 6.45 seconds
Comodo Dragon: 7.48 seconds
Maxthon Nitro: 2.01 seconds
Precentral:
Pale Moon: 3.91 seconds
SlimJet: 4.46 seconds
Comodo Dragon: 4.43 seconds
Maxthon Nitro: 3.13 seconds
CultOfMac:
Pale Moon: 6.63 seconds
SlimJet: 7.43 seconds
Comodo Dragon: 6.91 seconds
Maxthon Nitro: 15.16 seconds (All iFrames must be loaded until time stops)
Browser Benchmarks:
When testing, all non-essential running processes and add ons/extensions were terminated to prevent any incorrect measurement of the browser's performance.
Kraken:
Lower Score is better, determined by download speed.
Confidence Intervals are Ignored in the chart.
Pale Moon: 3890 ms +/- 1.7%
SlimJet: 3146.6 ms +/- 0.6%
Comodo Dragon: 3229 ms +/- 7.3%
Maxthon Nitro: 3541.1 ms +/- 3.7%
B-Mark:
Higher Score is better, determined by average FPS during graphical tests.
Pale Moon: 255
SlimJet: 954
Comodo Dragon: 898
Maxthon Nitro: 925
Octane:
Higher Score is better, determined by JavaScript performance (according to Google, in more real-life circumstances such as highly animated websites)
Pale Moon: 7701
SlimJet: 11991
Comodo Dragon: 13401
Maxthon Nitro: 10849
HTML5 Test:
Higher Score is better, determined by how well the browser supports HTML 5
Pale Moon: 404
SlimJet: 521
Comodo Dragon: 518
Maxthon Nitro: 476
Fishbowl:
Higher Score is better, determined by the number of fish withheld with 55+ fps.
Pale Moon: The Test Failed Due To Random Errors.
SlimJet: 25
Comodo Dragon: 25
Maxthon Nitro: The Test Failed Due To Random Errors.
JetStream:
Higher Score is better, determined by effectiveness at handling advanced JavaScript workloads.
Pale Moon:
SlimJet:
Comodo Dragon:
Maxthon Nitro:
Equipment Used:
- Dell Inspiron 546: AMD Athlon II X4 215 @ 2.7 gHZ, 4 GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD5450 (1GB Video Memory)
(Test Machine)
- MacBook Pro: Intel Core i5 @ 2.6 gHZ, 8 GB RAM, Intel Iris Pro
(Research Machine)
- iPhone 5C: Timer Only
- All Software Will Be Turned Off when running tests, including Anti Virus software, Ad blocking software, and all other non-essential tasks.
Tests Used:
Speed:
Cold Start
Load Scobleizer: Scobleizer - Entrepreneur in Residence
Load Precentral: webOS Nation | webOS Forums, News, Reviews, Apps and Help
Load CultOfMac: Cult of Mac
Benchmark:
Kraken: Kraken JavaScript Benchmark (kraken-1.1 test suite - In Progress...)
Browser Mark: Basemark Web 3.0 | Main page
B-Mark: BMark - A HTML5 3D Benchmark
Octane: http://octane-benchmark.googlecode.com/svn/latest/index.html
HTML5 Test: The HTML5 test - How well does your browser support HTML5?
Fishbowl: https://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/performance/fishbowl/
JetStream: BrowserBench.org — Browser Benchmarks
Browsers That Have Been Tested:
IE
Firefox
Chrome
Opera
Vivaldi
Maxthon
Waterfox
Yandex
The Browsers Being Tested (Round 3):
Pale Moon
SlimJet
Comodo Dragon
Maxthon Nitro
More Browsers Currently Up To Testing (Round 4):
SeaMonkey
Please Send Me More Suggestions To Test More Browsers.
Ready To Place Your Bets?
Round 1 (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera):
Cold Start:
-Checking For Stray Processes.
No? Let's Go!
Internet Explorer: 20.30 seconds
Mozilla Firefox: 20.13 seconds
Google Chrome: 7.63 seconds
Opera: 14.36 seconds
Warm Start:
-Stop It Google Chrome! Stop Running Stray Processes!
Internet Explorer: 4.56 seconds
Mozilla Firefox: 4.78 seconds
Google Chrome: 2.08 seconds
Opera: 3.38 seconds
Website Booting:
The way we judge when the website has been fully booted is if all content, including adverts are shown, and the website icon on the tab has been fully displayed.
Scobleizer:
Internet Explorer: 6.71 seconds
Mozilla Firefox: 8.94 seconds
Google Chrome: 6.90 seconds
Opera: 9.25 seconds
Precentral:
Internet Explorer: 4.56 seconds
Mozilla Firefox: 3.25 seconds
Google Chrome: 4.40 seconds
Opera: 4.66 seconds
CultOfMac:
Internet Explorer: 7.88 seconds
Mozilla Firefox: 6.06 seconds
Google Chrome: 15 + seconds (Disqualified according to technical terms)
Opera: 12.05 seconds
Browser Benchmarks:
When testing, all non-essential running processes and add ons/extensions were terminated to prevent any incorrect measurement of the browser's performance.
Kraken:
Lower Score is better, determined by JavaScript performance.
Confidence Intervals are Ignored in the chart.
Internet Explorer: 5641.4 ms +/- 2.4%
Mozilla Firefox: 3379.3 ms +/- 4.1 %
Google Chrome: 2966.2 ms +/- 1.3%
Opera: 2943.0 ms +/- 1.0%
BrowserMark:
BrowserMark decided to throw a 404 error so no BrowserMark for you!
B-Mark:
Higher Score is better, determined by average FPS during graphical tests.
Internet Explorer: 147
Mozilla Firefox: 340
Google Chrome: 914
Opera: 1120
Octane:
Higher Score is better, determined by JavaScript performance (according to Google, in more real-life circumstances such as highly animated websites)
Internet Explorer: 6931
Mozilla Firefox: 9676
Google Chrome: 12693
Opera: 12391
HTML5 Test:
Higher Score is better, determined by how well the browser supports HTML 5
Internet Explorer: 336
Mozilla Firefox: 434
Google Chrome: 521
Opera: 520
Fishbowl:
Higher Score is better, determined by the number of fish withheld with 55+ fps.
Internet Explorer: 1
Mozilla Firefox: The Test Malfunctioned Due To Random Errors
Google Chrome: 21
Opera: 18
JetStream:
Higher Score is better, determined by effectiveness at handling advanced JavaScript workloads.
Internet Explorer: 50.53
Mozilla Firefox: 38.52
Google Chrome: 77.39
Opera: 76.53
Conclusions:
In terms of the Speed Tests (Booting and Loading),
Google Chrome took 2 tests,
Mozilla Firefox took 2 tests,
Internet Explorer took 1 test.
Google Chrome started up quicker than any other browser both with a cold start or warm start even after I had to manually terminate the processes after I closed it down. However, Mozilla Firefox took the lead in the Speed tests, outperforming Google Chrome significantly, and Internet Explorer (surprisingly) loaded the fastest in one test, narrowly outperforming Chrome.
Then came the benchmarks...
Google Chrome took 4 tests,
Opera took 2.
(The ones that Opera took were Mozilla's Kraken and B-Mark)
Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox performed quite poorly, not coming close to taking any of the benchmarks. Unfortunately, Firefox also glitched out on the Fishbowl test, making me disqualify it from the benchmark. Google Chrome, by far, outperformed the competition by a comfortably large margin.
Final Results:
Speed: Chrome/Firefox
Benchmark: Chrome
The winner, from these tests, is Google Chrome.
Round 2 (Vivaldi, Maxthon, Waterfox, Yandex):
Cold Start:
Vivaldi: 6.81 seconds
Maxthon: 5.63 seconds
Waterfox: 15.96 seconds
Yandex: 6.11 seconds
Warm Start:
Vivaldi: 4.76 seconds
Maxthon: 4.45 seconds
Waterfox: 6.25 seconds
Yandex: 5.99 seconds
Website Booting:
The way we judge when the website has been fully booted is if all content, including adverts are shown, and the website icon on the tab has been fully displayed.
Scobleizer:
Vivaldi: 6.55 seconds
Maxthon: 4.33 seconds
Waterfox: 11.05 seconds
Yandex: 10.14 seconds
Precentral:
Vivaldi: 7.66 seconds
Maxthon: 3.23 seconds
Waterfox: 5.00 seconds
Yandex: 6.30 seconds
CultOfMac:
Vivaldi: 11.25 seconds
Maxthon: 5.11 seconds
Waterfox: 8.05 seconds
Yandex: 7.56 seconds
Browser Benchmarks:
When testing, all non-essential running processes and add ons/extensions were terminated to prevent any incorrect measurement of the browser's performance.
Kraken:
Lower Score is better, determined by JavaScript performance.
Confidence Intervals are Ignored in the chart.
Vivaldi: 2931.4 ms +/- 1.2%
Maxthon: 3365.9 ms +/- 1.6%
Waterfox: 3057.0 ms +/- 1.8%
Yandex: 2958.2 ms +/- 0.5 %
B-Mark:
Higher Score is better, determined by average FPS during graphical tests.
Vivaldi: 966
Maxthon: 464
Waterfox: 463
Yandex: 1076
Octane:
Higher Score is better, determined by JavaScript performance (according to Google, in more real-life circumstances such as highly animated websites)
Vivaldi: 12678
Maxthon: 10140
Waterfox: 9715
Yandex: 13269
HTML5 Test:
Higher Score is better, determined by how well the browser supports HTML 5
Vivaldi: 521
Maxthon: 467
Waterfox: 493
Yandex: 521
Fishbowl:
Higher Score is better, determined by the number of fish withheld with 55+ fps.
Vivaldi: 10
Maxthon: 0
Waterfox: 10
Yandex: 25
JetStream:
Higher Score is better, determined by effectiveness at handling advanced JavaScript workloads.
Vivaldi: 78.80
Maxthon: 91.70
Waterfox: 59.11
Yandex: 75.99
Conclusion:
In Speed,
Maxthon took all 5.
Maxthon aced all 5 speed tests, starting the quickest of all the Round 2 browsers.In fact, it would've even beaten Chrome in the Cold Start category. When it came to loading websites, Maxthon was no slouch either. Loading at crazy fast times compared to every other browser, it definitely shines in this respect.
The benchmarks tests then came about...
Yandex took 3 (And tied 1),
Vivaldi took 1 (And tied 1),
and Maxthon took 1.
Yandex definitely showed its true colors in the benchmark testing. However, something to note is that Maxthon achieved a record high 91.70 in the JetStream benchmark, which nobody in either of the two rounds came close to.
Round 3 (Pale Moon, SlimJet, Comodo Dragon, Maxthon Nitro)
In this round we have several browsers which are peculiar in all different ways. All of these browsers are forks of the Gecko or WebKit engines, with different reasons for existing.
Cold Start:
Pale Moon: 5.96 seconds
SlimJet: 5.06 seconds
Comodo Dragon: 10.69 seconds
Maxthon Nitro: 3.93 seconds
Warm Start:
Pale Moon: 2.86 seconds
SlimJet: 3.48 seconds
Comodo Dragon: 7.08 seconds
Maxthon Nitro: 1.21 seconds
Website Booting:
The way we judge when the website has been fully booted is if all content, including adverts are shown, and the website icon on the tab has been fully displayed.
Scobleizer:
Pale Moon: 3.70 seconds
SlimJet: 6.45 seconds
Comodo Dragon: 7.48 seconds
Maxthon Nitro: 2.01 seconds
Precentral:
Pale Moon: 3.91 seconds
SlimJet: 4.46 seconds
Comodo Dragon: 4.43 seconds
Maxthon Nitro: 3.13 seconds
CultOfMac:
Pale Moon: 6.63 seconds
SlimJet: 7.43 seconds
Comodo Dragon: 6.91 seconds
Maxthon Nitro: 15.16 seconds (All iFrames must be loaded until time stops)
Browser Benchmarks:
When testing, all non-essential running processes and add ons/extensions were terminated to prevent any incorrect measurement of the browser's performance.
Kraken:
Lower Score is better, determined by download speed.
Confidence Intervals are Ignored in the chart.
Pale Moon: 3890 ms +/- 1.7%
SlimJet: 3146.6 ms +/- 0.6%
Comodo Dragon: 3229 ms +/- 7.3%
Maxthon Nitro: 3541.1 ms +/- 3.7%
B-Mark:
Higher Score is better, determined by average FPS during graphical tests.
Pale Moon: 255
SlimJet: 954
Comodo Dragon: 898
Maxthon Nitro: 925
Octane:
Higher Score is better, determined by JavaScript performance (according to Google, in more real-life circumstances such as highly animated websites)
Pale Moon: 7701
SlimJet: 11991
Comodo Dragon: 13401
Maxthon Nitro: 10849
HTML5 Test:
Higher Score is better, determined by how well the browser supports HTML 5
Pale Moon: 404
SlimJet: 521
Comodo Dragon: 518
Maxthon Nitro: 476
Fishbowl:
Higher Score is better, determined by the number of fish withheld with 55+ fps.
Pale Moon: The Test Failed Due To Random Errors.
SlimJet: 25
Comodo Dragon: 25
Maxthon Nitro: The Test Failed Due To Random Errors.
JetStream:
Higher Score is better, determined by effectiveness at handling advanced JavaScript workloads.
Pale Moon:
SlimJet:
Comodo Dragon:
Maxthon Nitro:
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