Google Chrome Performance: Real Numbers!

      by Wyatt Walter

Despite all of the chatter on the web in the last few days about Chrome, there hadn’t really been a lot of hard numbers about the performance of Chrome versus other browsers. We’ve been hearing about how it’s much faster and more efficient, but no one with real tests. The Zimbra team yesterday released an actual test on their blog. Zimbra is a collaboration suite much like Microsoft Exchange that has a fairly heavy Javascript web client which makes it a perfect candidate for running browser Javascript rendering tests. The verdict: while not the fastest, Chrome definitely held its own. Meanwhile, IE8 was left in the dust, despite big talk from Microsoft fans. The was the fastest in a majority of the tests was Safari with Chrome a close second and Firefox in a slightly farther, but still close third. Since both are based upon Webkit, it’s no surprise that Safari and Chrome were close, but the biggest surprise to me came in the performance of IE8. In the majority of the tests, IE8 took twice as long as the other three to render elements. Where are these performance gains Microsoft has promised? If it’s actually improved, I’d like to see tests of the same nature with IE7.

Note: The Zimbra web client has to be modified to not do a browser check when logging in for the tests to work. Jholder gives the solution in post #6 of this thread.

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One Response to “Google Chrome Performance: Real Numbers!”

  1. Leora Says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 1:39 pm

    Thanks for writing this.

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