News About Unreliable Mobile Browser Speed Test Due To Wrong Usage of Web Browser
The result of the largest study of smartphones web browser ever conducted that awarded the Android browser, represented by the Nexus S, as the true champion has begun to be questioned. The study that was carried on 45.000 times on 1.000 different sites had proved that Android browser of the Nexus S was 52% faster than the mobile Safari of the iPhone 4. This, of course, attracts people’s doubt, especially when we look back that mobile Safari had been made a JavaScript improvement.
Unreliable Mobile Browser Speed Test Due To Wrong Usage of Web Browser
According to those who have decided to learn about the research, as soon as the suspicious result got published, JavaScript improvement blessed to mobile Safari seemed to have not much effect to the speed is because the web browser used in the test was not the mobile safari itself. In fact, the web browser used in the text, as the representative of Apple browser, was the Apple’s own proprietary app, UIWebView, that completely missed the JavaScript improvements. The browser seats as the substitution of the iOS’s actual browser.
So now, the book that records the test result must add a footnote or something like that, clarifying that the web browsers used in the test were not Android browser and mobile Safari, rather than Android browser vs. UIWebView in order for it to be reliable. Otherwise, Blaze can re-do the tests using the actual Safari browser, or someone with plenty of time on his hands can develop their own test for measuring which browser is faster
