Google Chrome smashes Speedometer 3 record with massive performance gains

Google is flexing its engineering muscles today by announcing a record-breaking score on the Speedometer 3 benchmark with its Chrome browser. If you’ve felt like the web got snappier lately, this could be why. According to the search giant, Chrome’s latest performance improvements translate to real-world time savings. Believe it or not, that could potentially add up to 58 million hours saved annually for users. That’s the equivalent of about 83 human lifetimes not wasted waiting for web pages to load! Speedometer 3 is no gimmick, folks. It’s a publicly available benchmark created in open collaboration between major browser makers.… [Continue Reading]