Browser Speed Testing

We’re often asked what browser is the best to use with ProWorkflow. Our response for quite some time now has been to suggest using anything apart from Internet Explorer, there are a couple of reasons for this but the largest factor is speed.

ProWorkflow’s project management app is a data intensive application and isn’t typical of a normal website, this means we make your browser work harder than normal! Each browser renders a website and processes any active code using a different engine and some are much quicker than others. On smaller pages in ProWorkflow you won’t notice much difference but as you work with more complex projects you can save valuable seconds which soon add up.

We last did a similar speed comparison about 6 months ago and Chrome was the winner, since then there have been a few updates to Firefox and Internet Explorer and we have also added Safari to our officially supported browser list so we were keen to repeat our test.

These are the browsers we tested:

• Chrome (5.0.322.2)
• Firefox (3.6)
• Internet Explorer (8.0.6001.18882)
• Safari (4.0.3)

And here are the results: (in seconds)

Chrome is the clear winner with Firefox in second, followed by Safari and Internet Explorer. If you are using one of the slower browsers then you could save 30% of the loading time just by switching to Chrome.

Download Chrome Today!

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What’s really great news is that looking at our last test, we can see that ProWorkflow is quicker than ever and that’s a reflection of the hard work our developers have been putting in to optimising performance. We’ll have another rollout coming soon which will bring even more speed as we are doing some further tweaking and the results are already looking fantastic!

Tags: Browser, Chrome, Comparison, firefox, Internet Explorer, Performance, proworkflow, Safari, speed