Since its inception in 2014 by the WebKit team, Speedometer has served as an essential barometer for browser engines, propelling performance enhancements to meet the escalating demands for more dynamic and seamless online experiences.
Its latest release, Speedometer 3.0, developed through the collective efforts of leading tech giants Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, offers a refined tool to gauge web application responsiveness by emulating real-user interactions on web pages and ushers a new era for browser performance testing.
Thanks to the collaboration of the major browser engines (Blink, Gecko, and WebKit), it introduces a superior methodology for measuring performance alongside a more encompassing set of tests that mirror the complexities of the modern Web.
We often blame our Internet connection for bad “speed experiences” but it can also be from the browser, or the various extensions added. Having a good benchmark can also serve to show whether adding or removing some extensions would make any significant difference.
On my Linux PC my Brave Beta browser scored 5.83 whilst Edge Dev scored 9.45. This gives me something to work with now whilst trying a few optimisations out.
At the end of the linked article is a link to the browser benchmark itself, if you want to try it out.
See https://linuxiac.com/cross-industry-giants-unite-for-speedometer-3-0/