[周边]Android Mobile Browser beats over Apple iPhone Mobile Browser like no tomorrow

根据加拿大渥太华Blaze Software对Android移动手机浏览器与Apple iPhone浏览器所作出的对比测试，Android以极大比率完胜iOS。Blaze已1000个不同的网站对以上两个不同的浏览器按照Blaze的移 动手机浏览器标准作出超过4500个不同的测试。测试结果得出Android浏览器平均比Apple iPhone iOS浏览器快52%。测试浏览器包括Android 2.2与Android 2.3相对应iPhone Safari里览器分别是iOS 4.2与iOS 4.3。Blaze 技术行政主管（CTO）与创建者，Guy Podjarnyin，说：“我们对测试结果感到十分惊讶。我们原先认为这两个浏览器的速度差别应该不会很大，根据现在JavaScript技术成面的成 熟度，在浏览网页速度上有极大的提高。但事实上Android的浏览器速度比Apple iPhone的浏览器超出极其大的差距。”

以下是原文：

iPhone vs. Android – 45,000 Tests Prove Whose Browser is Faster

Ottawa, ON, March 17, 2011 – Blaze Software Inc released today the largest ever research study of smart phone browser performance. The purpose of the study was to determine once and for all which of the two leading smart phone vendors has the fastest browser.

Mobile Web browser usage is exploding. Emarketer estimates that 44.1% of US citizens will leverage mobile Internet by 2014. To capture market interest in mobile browsing, smart phone vendors have been aggressively touting the speed improvements in their products. However, due to the lack of mobile measurement tools, it has been difficult to measure which smart phone actually has the faster browser.

After taking over 45,000 measurements on the latest iPhone and Android devices, the study found that Android was 52% faster than iPhone on average. Android finished loading a Web page faster on 84% of the 1000 Websites tested. The study also found that the despite significant JavaScript performance gains in the latest Apple iOS 4.3 release and Google Android 2.3 releases, these improvement made no measurable improvement on the actual page load times of the sites tested.

“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”.

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. 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.

Detailed blog post on the Blaze Mobile Measurement Study
For more information on the details results and methodology of the study, please see: www.blaze.io/blog

For more information on the Mobile measurement service
Blaze’s mobile measurement service can be found at: www.blaze.io/mobile

About Blaze
Blaze was founded in 2010 with a mission to help clients deliver better performing Web businesses by optimizing websites to increase website speed.  Blaze provides a hosted Web Performance Optimization service that improves frontend performance and reduces operational costs. For more information, see: www.blaze.io

个人希望Blaze也对Playbook或BlackBerry Smartphone的WebKit Browser与Android、Apple的作一个类似的对比。虽然我们已经在网络上看到无数的视频展示出Playbook完胜iPad的视频，但我也 想知道Android VS BlackBerry Tablet OS （aka QNX）到底哪一个会更加优秀。