Surprise? BlackBerry’s Web Browser Is 3x Faster Than Internet Explorer or Safari
By Zach Epstein, BGR
More than a year ago, BlackBerry released an all-new phone and operating system meant to re-energize and modernize the brand. And though it never really caught on, tests pitting the BlackBerry 10 Web browser against mobile offerings from Apple and Microsoft saw BlackBerry’s offering smoke mobile Safari and Internet Explorer on the Windows Phone by a fairly wide margin.
Plenty has changed since then — Apple released iOS 7 alongside a major redesign, and Microsoft issued some updates as well — but one thing definitely has not: Results of new browser speed tests published recently by New Relic show that when it comes to loading Web pages, BlackBerry 10 still tops the competition.
According to New Relic, which analyzed more than 16.8 million page loads from early October through early November last year, BlackBerry 10 devices loaded Web pages in 1.55 seconds on average. The second-fastest Web browser, Opera Mini 4.2, averaged page-load times of 4.78 seconds.
In other words, the BlackBerry 10 browser is more than three times faster than its next-closest competitor.
Apple’s Safari browser on the iPad came in at No. 3 with an average page load time of 4.91 seconds, and no other native Web browser was even included in New Relic’s top-nine rankings.
Click here to view the infographic showcasing the company’s test results.
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