The IE team created a video that demonstrates the performance testing that was done against the new Internet Explorer 8.0 release in order to prove it’s performance improvements. It would appear they’ve done a VERY good job.
- VIDEO: IE8 Performance
In the absence of effective benchmarking tools, the Internet Explorer Team created a real world test which took in several key factors into consideration and created a level playing field for all browsers tested. The results when comparing Internet Explorer 8 page load times to Firefox and Chrome were captured on this video.
http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/
us/details/cffddf93-14cf-4047-9b25-b4e07cdf6bf6
If you’re interested in raw benchmarking scores, take a look at my previous post on Internet Explorer 8.0 benchmarking and the documentation that was written
- WHITEPAPER: Measuring Browser Performance: Understanding issues in benchmarking and performance analysis
http://kurtsh.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DA410C7F7E038D!4893.entry
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