IE9 vs. Chrome: Which is faster?

Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 9 beta 1 in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. Here in this article few websites were tested to know whether IE9 or Chrome, Which is faster?

IE9 is much better than the previous version of Internet Explorer. IE9 beta also boasts a nice new icon, which looks a lot sleeker than its predecessor. Here 10 websites were tested and times were timed with WebWait, a simple page load timer. The two web browsers were tested on a system with a 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 9600M GT (256MB), 64GB SSD, all running on Windows 7 Professional x64 on a 20Mbps connection.

IE9 vs. Chrome

IE9 BETA 1 (9.0.7930.16406 X64)

• Yahoo.com – 1.36s
• MSN.com – 3.45s
• Bing.com – 0.63s
• Microsoft.com – 2.87s
• Apple.com – 1.21s
• Dogpile.com – 1.83s
• Gumballtech.com – 2.14s
• IMDB.com – 2.05s
• TestDriveUnlimited2.com – 4.41s
• TWiiPhone.com – 2.56s

TOTAL: 22.51s

CHROME (6.0.472.59)

• Yahoo.com – 1.49s
• MSN.com – 2.58s
• Bing.com – 0.71s
• Microsoft.com – 2.92s
• Apple.com – 1.57s
• Dogpile.com – 1.32s
• Gumballtech.com – 1.94s
• IMDB.com – 2.37s
• TestDriveUnlimited2 – 4.80s
• TWiiPhone.com – 2.14s

TOTAL: 21.84

After overall times were added up Chrome won by 0.67s, which isn’t that much. In fact IE9 won the majority of the tests (6 out of 10). We can say that to the average user, IE9 will be plenty for them. To a power user, Chrome may still be the number one choice. IE9 is definitely going to be interesting once it is fully released.

So, which one will you use? IE9 or Chrome?