Advice Request Why do you browse faster on Mac than on Windows?

[RoboMan]

Okay I may or may not be actually raging at my PC for this.

I bought a Mac a few days ago. i5, RAM 8GB, SSD... And I have my Windows PC. i7, 16GB, SSD...

I literally type a website on Safari (Mac) and gets instantly connected. Literally.
I literally type a website on Chrome (Windows) and it takes 2-8 seconds to finish loading it.

Same internet connection.

How on earth is this achieved? I don't have any potential software injecting my internet like an antivirus at the moment.

What's the big secret behind this?

EDIT: did a quick video to show you

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

Not 100% of it, but some of it will be the collecting and sharing of that telemetry data, as you type you create, as you create you leave crumbs. Microsoft collects that as do many others like Google ect. They dont give one big poo that you have to wait 2 more seconds for your site. Just a suggestion, try the same on windows with HMP.A installed, for me when I used it, that pause stopped.

 

[Deleted member 178]

With Apple the OS is optimized for the hardware.
On Windows you deals with different Hardware, Background processes, drivers, browsers, etc...

Don't try to find out, too many factors involved.

I can get your results on 2 windows systems.

 

[RoboMan]

Results are disgustingly funny

 

[DeepWeb]

Poor drivers, Windows built-in DNS client, all the programmers at Google/Mozilla use Macbook and optimize for Mac lol.

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

This isn't a controlled study, and it isn't comparing Apples to Apples (no pun intended).

To honestly test this you really need to be using the same browser, same extensions, and no AV on the windows machine - even WD has to be turned off. Then test it. Frankly, the speed of your Windows laptop opening that page is embarassingly slow so I am wondering what is going on with that? My average page load on my Ryzen is about 0.09s. Anything more than 0.15s and I would blow a gasket and think my computer needed to be flattened.

That aside, Mac is Unix, Linux is Unix. You'll almost always find faster loads on Unix based core OS's or derivatives of them largely because of the architecture in how they handle application execution.

PS: Apple stuff would never see my network. Overpriced, inflexible, and honestly - I hate what Apple stands for and generally despise people infatuated with Apple. Hehe

 

[outlawxtorn]

I will say one thing. That laugh is fantastic lol.

 

[SHvFl]

Maybe cache handling is different on safari vs chrome (Reload bypassing cache). I highly doubt it's because of windows if you have wd completely off.

I don't think it's dns issue but maybe test your dns to see if it's in ms.

GRC's | DNS Nameserver Performance Benchmark

 

[TairikuOkami]

I don't think it's dns issue but maybe test your dns to see if it's in ms.

DNS is not the issue, it took 0,07 secs on mine, but it still takes from 4 up to 9 secs to load.
Webpages usually load within 2-3 secs, so I would say, it is a badly optimized webpage.

Showing results for http://www.funciondigital.com/ - Nu Html Checker

 

[Kuttz]

Okay I may or may not be actually raging at my PC for this.

I bought a Mac a few days ago. i5, RAM 8GB, SSD... And I have my Windows PC. i7, 16GB, SSD...

I literally type a website on Safari (Mac) and gets instantly connected. Literally.
I literally type a website on Chrome (Windows) and it takes 2-8 seconds to finish loading it.

Same internet connection.

How on earth is this achieved? I don't have any potential software injecting my internet like an antivirus at the moment.

What's the big secret behind this?

EDIT: did a quick video to show you

Browser caching characteristics varies from browser to browser. I always felt Chrome loads pages faster than Firefox once the page is on browser cache. But if a page is loaded for the first time both browser load the page at almost same speed. OS has nothing to do with page load I believe.

 

[Handsome Recluse]

Why browser speed benchmarks are meaningless
If you have a slow browser, read here

 

[Thirio]

I literally type a website on Chrome Edge (Windows) and it takes 2-8 seconds to finish loading it.

Did you figure out yet that you were running Edge on the Windows PC? The problem here is Safari vs Edge, not Mac vs Windows. Edge is slow af no matter what extension you add to it. The only use I ever got out of Edge was downloading Chrome then immediately closing it.

 

[Andrew3000]

Probably because Microsoft sends our hard drive to their servers.

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

DNS is not the issue, it took 0,07 secs on mine, but it still takes from 4 up to 9 secs to load.
Webpages usually load within 2-3 secs, so I would say, it is a badly optimized webpage.

Showing results for http://www.funciondigital.com/ - Nu Html Checker

That website is crap. It's highly possible it's a website that is just optimized for one browser. I am pretty sure with a cursory search I can find a website badly optimized for Safari and greatly optimized for Edge. Or more likely a website optimized for all browsers that has a very similar load time.