Originally posted by Asher
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Things like cache, prefetching, connection handling, all affect real world performance, even in ADSL connections. Handling page reflows is just as important factor in precieved rendering speed. All of this is completely ignored, even though it is probably has a larger effect on user perceived responsiveness than net rendering speed.
But you know what? That would be fine if they hadn't pretended to enter the actual address (or at least google it) prior to launch in all 3 segments, thus leading people to believe they are watching real world performance. Which they are not.
Most commercials are honest enough to add "real world results may vary" when they show custom built lab tests.
A beautiful concept, but a misleading message.
P.S: Just watched it again. The mouse is not pressing "go", but pressing "forward", thus loading an already visited page. IIRC firefox holds several previously rendered pages in memory for quick rendering. Is chrome relying on the same trick for its speed demonstration?
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