One question that I've been asked so many times is: "Which is the best browser out there?". Personally I prefer Google Chrome because it's lightweight and I've become used to it, but this doesn't mean that it is the best. In my opinion it all comes down to personal taste and the features that one person uses.

To prove that I've developed a small jQuery script that counts the loading time of our home page in milliseconds (1 second = 1000 milliseconds). Of course this is just an approximate test, but it does prove a point for the average user.

Test results for page loading times¹:

• Internet Explorer 9 - 4038 ms
• Firefox 9.01 - 4208 ms
• Safari 5.1.2 - 4031 ms
• Chrome 16.0 - 3944ms

//this sets the start time of the counter as fast as possible ... it was put at the beginning of the head tag

var startTime = (new Date()).getTime();
//the end time is set after the window has fully loaded and the difference between the two is the loading time of the webpage


jQuery(window).load(function()
{
var endTime = (new Date()).getTime();
var millisecondsLoading = endTime - startTime;
alert(millisecondsLoading);
});
// of course this is not an exact calculation as time has been lost with loading jQuery

¹This test is not meant for scientific results it is subjective and it does not provide accurate results.