Google Chrome JavaScript Speed Test

September 2, 2008

Google’s new browser - Chrome - has a JavaScript engine called V8 that was built from scratch. So, how fast is it?

I ran these tests http://mootools.net/slickspeed/ on IE, Firefox and Chrome.

Here are the results:

It looks like Chrome is about 13% faster than Firefox and 82% faster than IE 7.

All browsers are running on the same computer, so the hardware/os settings are irrelevant. But if you are curious, it’s a Windows Vista 64-bit machine with 6 Gigs of RAM and a quad core chip.

[Update] If you are reading this in Chrome, the embedded document is broken. I guess Google didn’t test there own sites. It should look like this:

Instead it looks like this:

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ByteEnable 2 months ago 1 point
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This test introduces delay in the javascipt so the browser doesn't lock up. Remove the delay then benchmark chrome.

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eibrahim 2 months ago 1 point
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Regardless of how the test is created, it is still the same test on all
browsers... This is not really a benchmark of how fast chrome is. It is a
relative comparison between the browsers.

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movie buff 2 months ago 1 point
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should be interesting to see if Chrome works more efficiently than FireFox and IE... if it's faster than Firefox, since isn't IE, then i'll use it

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http://www.kogmedia.com

hutchwilco 2 months ago 1 point
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I'm using chrome to view this page and the insert from google docs looks correct as you describe, and not like the incorrect version picture you've posted....

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eibrahim 2 months ago 1 point
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That's interesting... I am using Vista 64... I am not sure if that would
make a difference... I just checked again and it is still broken and by the
way, this is a fresh vista install as of 3 hours ago.
-Emad

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robert 2 months ago 1 point
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ikmust be missing something, it looks as if ie is the winner here, must be really rendering wrong for me :)

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eibrahim 2 months ago 1 point
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that's the time it took it to complete the test, so the longer the bar the
slower the browser

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David 1 month ago 1 point
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try opera, for some reason with prototype it owns the competition =P but that's the only one that's faster, otherwise, google chrome ftw!

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Vladimir Kelman 1 month ago 1 point
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On Win 2008 Server (x86) under Chrome it looks incorrect - as you described above.

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http://pro-thoughts.blogspot.com/

Craps Tournaments 1 month ago 1 point
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i installed google chrome and found that any links in windows live mail only opened google chrome home page. it would not go to the link. so i removed google chrome. now any link, including live mail ‘help’ or ‘get technical support’ comes up with an error ‘Application not found’

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http://www.crapstourneys.com

eibrahim 1 month ago 1 point
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Did you try setting the default browser back to IE or Firefox?

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