{"id":501,"date":"2005-03-10T00:03:52","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T00:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/501"},"modified":"2005-03-10T00:03:52","modified_gmt":"2005-03-10T00:03:52","slug":"opera-v-firefox-speed-test-results-stunning-win-for-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/opera-v-firefox-speed-test-results-stunning-win-for-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera v Firefox speed test results (Stunning win for Opera)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->OK, this isn&#39;t overly scientific but I came across a site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.numion.com\/Stopwatch\/index.html?\" target=\"_blank\">Stopwatch<\/a> which measures the time it takes for a specific URL to load. I thought I&#39;d give it a go on some of my regular haunts.<\/p>\n<p>To make things fair I cleaned out the cache in both browsers: Opera 8 beta2 and Firefox 1.0.1<\/p>\n<p>The results are genuine (the last one is bizarre), but speak for themselves:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/<\/a>    Opera: 3.453\tFirefox: 4.46<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.network54.com\/Forum\/goto?forumid=8980\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.network54.com\/Forum\/goto?forumid=8980<\/a>  Opera: 1.61  Firefox: 1.625<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbs.adslguide.org.uk\/login.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bbs.adslguide.org.uk\/login.php<\/a> Opera:  0.828  Firefox: 1.15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.f-secure.com\/weblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.f-secure.com\/weblog\/<\/a>   Opera: 4.563   Firefox: 5.641<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixcentrix.co.uk\/pomo\/arts\/links.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pixcentrix.co.uk\/pomo\/arts\/links.htm<\/a>  Opera:  2.703   Firefox: 3.969<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.mozillazine.org\/index.php?c=10\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/forums.mozillazine.org\/index.php?c=10<\/a>   Opera: 3.312   Firefox: 3.703<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/journal\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/journal\/<\/a>  Opera: 9.328  Firefox: 9.63<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.opera.com<\/a>  Opera: 3.62   Firefox: 4.78<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getfirefox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.getfirefox.com\/<\/a>   Opera: 2.875    Firefox: 7.328  (!!!!)<\/p>\n<p>So it&#39;s a <b>9-0<\/b> win for Opera  |(32.292 seconds in Opera overall to 42.286 seconds in Firefox). Even if you strip out that last result, Firefox comes in at 34.958 over <b>8<\/b> sites compared with 9 in Opera.<\/p>\n<p>Test carried out on a Dell Dimension 4400 with 256kb RAM over a 512kb ADSL connection via Linksys WAG54G router.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}