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Embedded browser benchmark released
Rick Merritt
8/1/2011 12:17 PM EDT
In addition to measuring JavaScript execution, BrowsingBench also measures page-rendering speed and factors in content diversity.
"We developed BrowsingBench with a strong focus on real-world behavior by using real Web site content, connecting the Web server to the test device via wireless LAN and introducing client-server latency found on a typical Internet connection," said Mansoor Chishtie, chief technologist of Web technologies at Texas Instruments and chair of the EEMBC group that developed the tool.
Chishtie will post a blog with his thoughts on the tool later today.
BrowsingBench sets up its own client-server network to ensure repeatability and a realistic broadband profile. It lets users modulate the bandwidth and latency of the local server to simulate a variety of wireless and Wi-Fi scenarios, although the official test results will be generated using a standard 20ms latency to simulate a broadband profile.
The benchmark measures the actual browsing performance within a commercial stand-alone browser, as opposed to requiring custom applications for each device platform. Thus the tool can be used to compare browsing performance across different hardware platforms running a wide variety of software browser implementations, according to EEMBC.
"Creating a benchmark for mobile platforms requires more than just loading a series of Web pages." said Shay Gal-On, EEMBC’s director of technology who helped develop the new tool. "You must carefully control caching effects, check for page-rendering compliance, and perform tasks such as page scrolling to ensure 100 percent rendering," he added.
"As an industry association, we also encourage manufacturers to join the working group to help define BrowsingBench 2.0," said Markus Levy, EEMBC’s president.
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chanj
8/1/2011 12:49 PM EDT
End user experience is no doubt the most important information of benchmarking browser performance. User experience will break down into different areas.
1) Network performance
2) Caching
3) Rendering
Network performance can further breaking down into latency and packet loss rate.
Rendering performance will likely be affected by the technology being used such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Air and HTML5, etc. On the other hands, rendering performance will be relying on whether the whole page is being rendered or an active area of the whole page is being rendered.
I like to hear more about the tool and understand it better.
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daleste
8/1/2011 8:35 PM EDT
That's a great idea. Trying to view a website with my Blackberry is so painfull I don't even try. Maybe this will help to make it better.
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elctrnx_lyf
8/2/2011 5:04 AM EDT
Benchmarking of Hardware for the browser performance may depend a lot on the content of the website that is been accessed by the users. Surely it will help the buyers to understand how good is hardware.
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