If you're a regular PCWorld reader, you may have noticed the Browser Blowout story we posted last week. In it, I looked at various aspects of the major Web browsers, including features, interface, ...

In 2014, Apple's WebKit team released Speedometer, and in 2018, partnered with Google's Chrome team to release Speedometer 2.0. The partnership's goal was to create a shared understanding of web ...

I'm developing a JavaScript application that has some non-essential functionality that is slow for older browsers (the main concern is the corporate IE6). I would like to warn (or possibly just ...

Gecko (Firefox), Blink (Chrome / Edge), and WebKit (Safari) are the engines behind most web browsers, and the developers who make them have collaborated on a new benchmark to measure performance with ...

Apple in collaboration with other browser engine developers has announced the release of Speedometer 3.0, described by Apple as "the best way yet to measure browser benchmark performance." Apple's ...

Waiting — nobody likes it. Especially not on the web: With slow page loading and long loading times, you quickly lose interest in any content. To avoid such tests of patience, however, it’s not just a ...

It’s nice to see everyone working together to make the web better. It’s nice to see everyone working together to make the web better. Apple, Google, and Mozilla, the makers of Safari, Chrome, and ...

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Why it matters: Apple currently maintains Speedometer 2.1, a tool for benchmarking web browsers across various workloads. The software's next major iteration will receive input from three browser ...