“Sick of waiting for pages to load on your mobile device? Get an iPad or iPhone. That’s the upshot of a mobile browser speed study done by a company called Compuware Gomez,” Nick Mediati reports for PC World. “They found that Apple’s mobile version of Safari was fastest and BlackBerry’s browser the slowest.”
“According to Gomez, the iPad fully loads pages in 8.4 seconds on average,” Mediati reports. “The iPhone comes in second at 19.7 seconds, followed by Android at 36.5 seconds, and Blackberry at 61 seconds.”
Mediati reports, “Compuware Gomez also analyzed perceived page loading times–that is, how long it took each browser to load the items visible “above the fold” on screen (i.e. the elements visible to you when you first visit the page without scrolling down). Perceived load times are shorter because … In this, the iPad again came out on top, with a perceived load time of roughly 6.6 seconds. The iPhone clocked in at about 15.7 seconds, followed by Android at 28.2 second, and BlackBerry at around 43.8 seconds.”
Read more in the full article, including a complete chart of Compuware Gomez’s browser data with data for desktops and notebooks, here.