IE8 faster than Chrome or Firefox on more top web sites

My teammate Jon Box pointed out something today on browser  performance that caught my eye: these videos showing browser performance for Internet Explorer 8, Chrome, and Firefox (go to the “Case Study Videos” section at the bottom of the page). 

As it turns out, IE8 is most often the fastest browser to load the top 25 most visited web sites.  Of course, some sites were faster in Chrome and some were faster in Firefox, but overall 5 of the top 10 web sites were faster in IE8, as were 12 of the top 25.

Perhaps the bigger story is that even when one browser is faster than another, the differences are measured in either hundredths or tenths of seconds….  In other words, load times are so close that it’s hard to notice a difference at all in real world use.

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