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Often regarded as the ultimate rivals, and rarely seen in collaboration,Apple,Google, and Mozilla have joined forces to deliver an improvedweb browserbenchmark tool for users everywhere.
Speedometer 3 (a follow-on from Speedometer 2) is a browser benchmark designed to measure responsiveness by simulating user interactions on demonstrator web applications.
For now, version 3 is still in “active development” according to aGitHub page, which recommends users to refer to version 2.1, developed by the same three browser giants, for the “latest stable version”.
Speedometer 3
Google Chrome- which accounts for almost two-thirds of the market according toStatCounterDecember 2022 figures) - took to Twitter to explain its intentions that Speedometer 3 shall be updated, “to include representative modern workloads, like JavaScript frameworks.”
With more information set to be shared “in the coming months”, it seems that Speedometer 3 may still be a long way off yet.
A Tweet by theMozilla Developeraccount explained the importance of such an update:
“Nobody intentionally builds a website that lags or stutters. The Web promises smooth experiences, but sometimes it falls short. When it does, users suffer.”
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The thread continues to discuss how Speedometer 2, which shipped in 2018, is in need of an update as the web has progressed.
WebKit- an Apple-backed open-source project that powersSafari- was a little less revealing on social media. It simply announced plans for the joint venture, stating that “working together will help [the three organizations] further improve the benchmark and improve browser performance for [their] users.”
Safari and Firefox make up around 19% and 3% of the overall browser market share respectively.
For now, the updates remain largely unknown, however aGitHub postexplains how the collaboration will work. There will be three types of changes: trivial changes that requires reviewer approval, non-trivial changes that require approval from at least two of the organizations, and major changes that require a consensus to be reached by all organizations.
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