By: Aseem Gaurav, March 20, 2011 (New Delhi)
A study conducted by mobile-website–optimization company Blaze.io, involving over 40000 downloads of web pages belonging to the Fortune 1000 companies recently revealed that Android browsers are 52 per cent faster than iPhone’s.
The company tested the Samsung Nexus S (Android 2.3), Samsung Galaxy S (Android 2.2), the iPhone 4.3 and iPhone 4.2 by downloading more than 40,000 Fortune 1000 company websites using a Wi-Fi connection. The phones loaded each Fortune 1000 website three times.
On average, Android phones took 2.1 seconds to render non–mobile-optimized web pages, while the iPhone took 3.2 seconds.
The study also found that the much-touted JavaScript improvements in the latest versions of Android and the iPhone had little real-world effect on these web pages. Howeve, when it came to loading mobile web sites, the two platforms performed the same with download speeds averaging around 2 seconds.
Apple, however, called independent tests by Blaze Software to be "flawed." It said that speed enhancements introduced for Safari do not include the embedded version of the browser, therefore the results are biased towards Android.
“The sluggish iPhone took about 52 percent longer than the Android to load new web pages. Another important study finding: JavaScript improvements in the newest iPhone and Android don't have significant effects on page-load time. (JavaScript is the Web's native programming language that governs functionality on many sites.) Though the findings might be dispiriting for iPhone fanatics, all hope isn't lost: the Android only beat Apple in 84 percent of the trials. And both operating systems had almost the same load time – two seconds – for web pages designed specifically for mobile browsing,” Blaze.io said in a statement.
The Mobile Web browser usage is exploding with estimates suggesting that 44.1 per cent of US citizens will leverage mobile Internet by 2014.
