How long does your browser take to load this?

[vanguard]

Friends,

Please do me this favor.

1. Open your clock (or simply have access to a second hand).
2. Click on this link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/24/1627251
3. Let me know how long it took to load.

I have an iceBook 500 and IE takes about 40 seconds while Mozilla takes about 5 seconds. (Both timed with a second hand, not my perception.)

Also, let me know if you have a broadband connection. I can see that I d/l the entire page in about 1 to 1.5 seconds. Then, I see my CPU at 100% until the page is done rendering (much longer in IE).

Is this normal? What are your times? What kind of machine are you using? Which browser? (If possible, test IE)

Vanguard

[ulrik]

5,7 seconds in IE, nothing Cached, standard IE priority AND while Cinema 4D is rendering a scene and taking approx. 80% of the CPU

I am connecting over a shared broadband airport connection

during the 5,7 seconds, IE's processor %-peak was at around 12%, not more...

19 seconds in Omniweb, Omniweb went to around 50% all the time while it was rendering. Would have been faster if Cinema 4D wouldn't be there rendering I guess.

2,8 seconds in Mozilla. To fast to check top while operating the stopwatch

Cinema 4D, IE, Mozilla and Omniweb all share the same task priority.

[simX]

14 seconds using OmniWeb in Mac OS X, and it looked like the CPU was at 100% usage, but I had some other things going on including installing LimeWire (if I'm interpreting Spy correctly).

[vanguard]

Everybody is getting better IE times but everybody seems to have a better machine (so far).

GadgetLover, hardware specs?

[ulrik]

Originally posted by vanguard
Everybody is getting better IE times but everybody seems to have a better machine (so far).

GadgetLover, hardware specs?

I wouldn't say that. IE doesn't take advantage of the AltiVec engine, and rendering HTML pages means Integer calculations, so also the OS core of OS X wouldn't be accelerated by the AltiVec. Now, the Cube has a slower BUS than the standard tower G4. I'd say the mentioned G4 Cube 450 is at the moment closest to your iBook...

[scope]

10 seconds in OmniWeb. 512kbps Cable, 400MHz G4.

[ksuther]

Shurg, only just over 5 seconds using OmniWeb 4.1sp32. I'm suprised it was that fast :-/
Usually OmniWeb seems much slower. Maybe the builds are getting faster The CPU usage is still up there though.

[edX]

5 secs in latest version of icab - rendering is perfect (unless you really want that pesky banner ad)

10 secs in ie

all my specs are below as usual including my broadband connection from pachell/sbc global