Which Browser is Fastest?

richardsplanet — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:42:06 +0000

This is not an article about which browser if fastest, just an observation about some data that caught my eye.

While looking at page load times in my Google Analytics account, I noticed a surprising browser ranking (based on data from 01-Jan-2012 to 08-Apr-2012):

Internet Explorer, which has often been derided for being slow (as well as not standards compliant), took top spot.

While someone could take these figures and misrepresent it as which browser is fastest. What it really shows is which browser has a faster Internet connection.

As can be seen in the table below, Chrome and Firefox tend to be used in less developed countries where high speed Internet is probably not available:

For some reason, in those countries, Chrome and Firefox appear to be the preferred browser.

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WordPress – Jetpack 1.2 Broken on IE 8 and IE 9

richardsplanet — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:49:00 +0000

I just updated to Jetpack 1.2 on my site and find that the Site Stats module is broken for Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9. It works fine with FireFox 7.0.1.

Here’s Site Stats as seen in IE 8 (click for larger image):

Problems are:

it looks ugly, nice tables and formatting are all missing
the bar graph at the top doesn’t display
the Yesterday tabs do not work – clicking them does nothing
while the weekly tab does work, again the formatting is ugly and broken
IE 8 reports Errors on Page

It renders and functions fine in FireFox. The formatting is nice, the graphs show up, and the Yesterday tabs work. This is Site Stats as seen in FF (click for larger image):

If you use IE 8 as your primary browser (since my main computer still runs Windows XP) or IE 9, I cannot recommend upgrading to Jetpack 1.2.

All problems (that I saw) with Site Stats appear to be fixed as of 22-December-2011.

Update: Version 1.2.1 was released later today. Site Stats is still broken in IE 8 and IE 9.

Update (19-Nov-2011), applies to 1.2.1: I’m noticing that while the formating of Site Stats definitely looks fine in FireFox 7.0.1, the bar chart (reddish zone) doesn’t display when clicking on Site Stats on the from the left hand column (marked in red). I don’t remember this problem with with 1.2, so something may have broken with the update from 1.2 to 1.2.1. The bar charts do come up when clicking on the Days, Weeks, or Months tabs (marked in green): (click for a larger image)

Update (22-November-2011): Site Stats is now displaying correctly. Since I haven’t installed any updates, my best guess is that the Site Stats page was not being generated locally but by on the WordPress server and they have fixed their problems. As well, the bar graph comes up correctly in FireFox 7.0.1.

Update (25-November-2011): Site Stats is not working – again. This time, the values it is showing me are incorrect. Most of the stat values are too small (about 1/7^th of the expected value) – although, some are too big. As well, the Summary Tables show stats going back to December-2009 – this is impossible, this site only got powered by WordPress in March-2011. sigh. I hope they get this fixed.

The At A Glance bar chart displays the correct values (for now).

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