Re: Racing Post website - Google Chrome 1st- Firefox 3 2nd - IE8 3rd Best !

Redman wrote:
"Dave McAuley" <racebets@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:lbSdnWcVSLtQWKbUnZ2dnUVZ8oOdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxx
Dave McAuley wrote:
Redman wrote:
"Dave McAuley" <racebets@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fsudnUUerepw-6fUnZ2dnUVZ8rOdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxx
Hogs the CPU and Memory at times on my PC, especially when switching between cards etc - anyone else found the site noticeably slow ? I don't think they have done a thorough enough set of load-tests on this site.
Ran a few tests this morning Dave, nothing wrong when I access the RP site, opened multiple windows each loading a seperate RP site and switching between cards, all ok my end. Are you using a Router? Do you have a software firewall?

Redman



Yeah I have a software firewall but then I had it when the old site was up and running with no issues. I've also tested with the firewall off and still same problem. I think it's more to do with the fact there is so much javascript in use on the site. I will test with Firefox/Google Chrome etc and upgrade my java to see if that helps but I can't see they performed proper load-testing on this new site using a mix of browsers as it would clearly have shown up during testing.

Right, well I have been using the Seamonkey browser for a while now (don't ask - I have my reasons) and it seems that this browser has really suffered by the extra use of JS/Ajax on the new Racing Post site so I'm going to have to ditch it as a browser which is a shame as it has a number of features that I find very useful, mainly the built in mail and newsgroups function.

First thing I thought I would try would be to download and install IE8 Beta as I have read there are much improvements with this browser from IE7 in terms of Javascript/Ajax so as the RP recommends IE7 then IE8 Beta must be even better.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288472(VS.85).aspx

I then ran through the SunSpider Javascript Benchmark Utility which performs a number of Javascript tests in the browser and compared the Seamonkey results to the IE8 Beta results. This showed a x2.29 speed improvement -:

http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html

SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark Results (IE8- Seamonkey)

TEST COMPARISON FROM TO DETAILS

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** TOTAL **: *2.29x as slow* 12460.8ms +/- 7.4% 28521.8ms +/- 18.9% significant

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So I figured that I have paid the price for using a non-trendy browser, probably not just on the RP site but any site utilising lots of Javascript.

I then decided to perform the same tests comparing Seamonkey to Firefox 3 as this guy has done (specifically to measure JS performance between the two) and was amazed to see a x6.42 jump in performance which means Firefox is roughly x2.8 times faster than IE.

http://frickinsweet.com/ryanlanciaux.com/post/IE8-vs-Firefox-30b5--JavaScript-Part-1.aspx


TEST COMPARISON FROM TO DETAILS

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** TOTAL **: *6.42x as slow* 4439.6ms +/- 7.5% 28521.8ms +/- 18.9% significant

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Finally, I thought I would try the new kid on the block - Google Chrome and this time compared it to Firefox 3. Amazingly, this showed another x2.26 improvement in terms of performance

TEST COMPARISON FROM TO DETAILS

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** TOTAL **: 2.26x as fast 4439.6ms +/- 7.5% 1966.0ms +/- 0.5% significant

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So summarise all the tests -:

Seamonkey - 28521ms
IE8 - 12460ms
Firefox 3 - 4439ms
Google Chrome - 1966ms

SO Google Chrome is the fastest with Firefox also decent so looks like I will be ditching Seamonkey for good and using Google Chrome and Firefox , only using IE for those sites that don't support the fast boys !

Well I have never liked IE, period. In the good old days I used Netscape Navigator, now it's Firefox for me. BTW Dave I use version 2.0.0.14 of FF, version 3 when it loads really slows my PC. Have you tried Opera? That's a nice browser as well

Redman



Yeah I used to use Opera - like it's functionality of getting windows on one screen but not used it for a while and according to what I have read it's one of the slowest in JS benchmark tests...

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001023.html

Think I am going to see how I get on with Google Chrome and use Thunderbird for my mail newsgroups and completely remove Seamonkey suite. May also try out Firefox 3 and see which one hammers the CPU/Memory most on overall usage but I'm done with IE unless I come across a site where Google Chrome or Firefox are not supported.
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