One engineering objective of Internet Explorer 9 is to build the world’s fastest browser. Browser performance matters to everyone, from consumers, enterprises, developers, and the technology industry – we all share a desire for a faster and more capable Web platform. This time we are focused on the real world scenarios that matter to most users, take a look at the five IE’s performance objectives :
Five Internet Explorer 9 Performance Objectives:
- Display Time: Perform user actions faster than any modern browser
- Elapsed Time: Execute Web site code faster than any modern browser
- CPU Time: Effectively scale computation better than any modern browser
- Resource Utilization: Require less overall system resources than any modern browser
- Power Consumption: Require less power than any modern browser
To achieve those objectives, over the last five years the IE team designed and built the Internet Explorer Performance Lab, one of the world’s most sophisticated web performance measurement systems.
The IE Performance Lab collects reliable, accurate, and actionable data to inform decisions throughout the development cycle. We measure the performance of Internet Explorer 200 times daily, collecting over 5.7 million measurements and 480GB of runtime data each day. We understand the impact of every change to the product and ensure that Internet Explorer only gets faster.
Real world browser performance matters. Measuring performance at scale is a significant investment and a full-time job, but the results are well worth the effort. The data gathered by the Internet Explorer Performance Lab is instrumental in our understanding of browser performance and of the underlying PC hardware, and in developing a fast, fluid, and responsive web experience for users.
Read the full post from the IE Engineering Team and learn more about how IE Performance Lab is designed and how it is being utilized to ensure that the effort is continually making the web faster. From overview, lab infrastructure, measurement metrics and methods, scenarios testing, to third-party software testing.
Also, watch the behind-the-scene video and visit the IE Test Drive site to experience the latest version of the fastest browser in the world.
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