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Android Loads Mobile Web Pages 52 Percent Faster Than iPhone, Study Says

Android Loads Mobile Web Pages 52 Percent Faster Than iPhone, Study Says

Android phones load mobile Web pages 52 percent faster than the iPhone, but recent platform upgrades did not result in any major speed improvements, according to a Thursday study.

Blaze Software took more than 45,000 measurements on the most recent versions of Android and iOS - Android 2.3 and iOS 4.3 - to see which smartphone had the fastest browser. In a test of 1,000 Web sites, Blaze found that the Android phone, in this case a Google Nexus S, was faster than the iPhone 4 84 percent of the time.

Android 2.3 had a median load time of 2.144 seconds vs. the iPhone’s median load time of 3.254 seconds, Blaze said.

“We were very surprised by the results,” Guy Podjarny, Blaze CTO and co-founder, said in a statement. “We assumed that it would be closer race and that the latest JavaScript speed improvements would have a more material impact on performance. The fact that Android beat iPhone by such a large margin was not expected.”

Despite the JavaScript boost in iOS 4.3 and Android 2.3, Blaze did not find a measurable improvement on the page load times.

“Both Apple and Google tout great performance improvements, but those seem to be reserved to JavaScript benchmarks and high-complexity apps,” Blaze said in a blog post. “If you expect pages to show up faster after an upgrade, you’ll be sorely disappointed.”

Blaze said its findings were significant because it tested real phones and real Web sites rather than relying on benchmark sites or results from a small number of sites. Blaze gathered its results via a custom app developed to measure page load times, which is available to any site with the Blaze Mobitest tool.

The company said it tested the Web sites of Fortune 1000 companies. Each site was loaded multiple times, primarily over Wi-Fi.

[Thanks: http://www.pcmag.com]

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