UnderWhat?
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Hey guys.
Anyway I have been using Steel since I thought it was overall faster at loading pages than Browser. But then I decided I would actually time them both to see which one is faster. Before every benchmark, I would
-Clear Cache
-Clear Cookies
-Clear History
-Clear Form Data
-End all processes other than ones needed to run android, and the browsers themselves.
Tests were run with an HTC Magic (288MB of RAM), 4 Bars of 3G, Rooted and running the CyanogenMod ROM (I do not know if the browser has been modified or not)
Site 1: NY Times
This is a great benchmarking site. It is full of images and text, and really shows all the muscle that a browser has.
Steel : Fully Loaded 1:27, Usable (Images and text loaded, scrollable) 15 seconds
Browser : Fully loaded 1:21, Usable 15 seconds.
Site 2 : Ebay.com
Well-know site. Lots of graphics and text
Steel : Fully Loaded 0:21 , Usable 0:15
Browser : Fully Loaded 0:26 , Usable 0:21
Site 3 : BestSkinsEver.com
Site for those skin cases. More text than graphics
Steel : Fully Loaded 0:13, Usable 0:11
Browser: Fully Loaded 0:41, Usable 0:38
As you can see from these numbers, they are pretty much tied, but browser really screwed up on bestskinsever.com for a reason not known to me (I ran the test twice with the same result)
Anyway I have been using Steel since I thought it was overall faster at loading pages than Browser. But then I decided I would actually time them both to see which one is faster. Before every benchmark, I would
-Clear Cache
-Clear Cookies
-Clear History
-Clear Form Data
-End all processes other than ones needed to run android, and the browsers themselves.
Tests were run with an HTC Magic (288MB of RAM), 4 Bars of 3G, Rooted and running the CyanogenMod ROM (I do not know if the browser has been modified or not)
Site 1: NY Times
This is a great benchmarking site. It is full of images and text, and really shows all the muscle that a browser has.
Steel : Fully Loaded 1:27, Usable (Images and text loaded, scrollable) 15 seconds
Browser : Fully loaded 1:21, Usable 15 seconds.
Site 2 : Ebay.com
Well-know site. Lots of graphics and text
Steel : Fully Loaded 0:21 , Usable 0:15
Browser : Fully Loaded 0:26 , Usable 0:21
Site 3 : BestSkinsEver.com
Site for those skin cases. More text than graphics
Steel : Fully Loaded 0:13, Usable 0:11
Browser: Fully Loaded 0:41, Usable 0:38
As you can see from these numbers, they are pretty much tied, but browser really screwed up on bestskinsever.com for a reason not known to me (I ran the test twice with the same result)
