14 DAY TRIAL // The Internet browsing experience that owners of Android-based devices receive is faster than the one offered by Apple's iPhone, a recently concluded study shows. According to a report coming from Blaze Software Inc, the Android platform offers 52% faster browsing than the iPhone on average.
The company also notes that this was the largest research study of smart phone browser performance that was even conducted, as they took a number of no less than 45,000 measurements on the latest iPhone and Android devices to determine the supremacy of one of the two platforms.
According to the report, the Android devices managed to load web pages faster on 84 percent of the 1000 Websites tested.
Moreover, the test showed that, although the latest Apple iOS 4.3 and Google Android 2.3 releases offer significant JavaScript performance gains, the actual page load times were not affected in a visible, measurable way.
“We were very surprised by the results”, said Guy Podjarny, Blaze CTO and Co-Founder.
“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”.
The mobile web market is expected to grow significantly, with over 44.1 percent of US citizens accessing the mobile Internet by 2014.
Handset vendors have been touting the impressive capabilities of their devices, attracting users towards mobile browsing, though the lack of specific measurement tools did not offer the possibility to specifically determine the smartphone that offers the faster browser.
“What makes this study unique is the size of the study and the fact that it used real phones on real world websites to make the measurements. Past studies have often used fabricated benchmark sites or manual measurements on a small number of sites,” the company explains.
“This study was made possible through custom apps developed to measure page load time on mobile devices. These apps run on the actual devices, load a page on demand, and measure how long it took. These agents are available as a free service to measure any site with the Blaze Mobitest Tool.”