How to test the speed of your browser?

There are lot of browsers out there that you can simply download and use. The most popular among them are Firefox, Opera, Safari, and IE. So you might all of them or a few of them installed in your system. People say Firefox is the fast, then some say Opera is faster than Firefox, some say Chrome is the best and the fastest browser in the world. So you may be confused a bit about which is the fastest. So you can convince yourself your doubts about which browser is the best by simply following few online browser speed tests rather than reading rave reviews about browsers and glancing at those bar charts and pie charts.
1.JavaScript
The best way to determine the speed of a browser is to test how fast the JavaScript engine of it is because most websites have at least a few JavaScript coded in them.You can check how good the JavaScript engine of a browser is at this website.

Another way to test how efficient your browser is in running JavaScript is here. This website will help you determine the 3D rendering capacities of your browser. The 3D world itself is created in JavaScript. Here you can adjust the resolution of the rendered 3D world also to determine how fast your browser is in rendering 3D environments. It has both textured and no textured 3D environments to help you precisely determine the 3D rendering capacity of your browser. You can also conduct an online test here.

2.CSS
CSS as you all know stands for Cascading Style Sheets.CSS also play an important role in determining the speed of browsers,just because most websites use CSS based templates,menus etc.You can test the CSS rendering ability of your browser here. All you have to do is to visit the website and save the CSS test page. Save it to your hard drive and access it again from your browser to determine the and CSS rendering capabilities of your browser.

3.Cold and Warm State Test
Probably you might not have heard of this test.To say cold state is simply when you open your browser for the first time. Warm state is when you close the browser and then restart it. To know more about this test visit this website.

4. Acid Tests
Actually it is for browser vendors to make their browser support latest web standards.To test how best your browser is take Acid 2 and Acid 3 tests.

Now I think you have got a clear idea about how fast and efficient your browser is. You can also check for other things like total memory usage, add on support, security features etc to determine which browser is the best.

I hope you enjoyed this post.