Of course, do not confuse the question of what they are the fastest Android browsers with the one of which are the best, because there are many other factors to take into account, but it cannot be denied that speed is a fundamental factor and of considerable weight, much easier to measure than others. We leave you with the results.
Puffin comfortably leads the ranking of the fastest Android browsers
The results that we leave you come from a test carried out in Android Authority in which 10 of the most popular Android browsers (including, in fact, options quite unknown to the general public, actually) were subjected to different benchmarks to measure its performance in different areas (of course on the same device and rebooted every time a new one was tested). There is not much to oppose to the selection of tests because they are the most commonly used.
The results are quite consistent and speak for themselves, furthermore, because the advantage of Puffin it is strong in practically all benchmarks. Shines especially in SunScript (with scores of 149,5 milliseconds, much lower than 726,8 milliseconds of a second) and in Kraken 1.1 (with scores of 1633,1 milliseconds, again, a far cry from Firefox's 5256,9 milliseconds). Only in Browsermark it is in third position (2364 points), very close to Chrome (2408) and Opera (2431).
Puffin renews the title, a few improve significantly and Dolphin follows the queue
It is interesting to put these results with which we had seen the last time we presented you with this ranking of the fastest Android browsers, more than two years ago, both for what has changed and for what it has not. In the first section, which remains the same, we have the victory of Puffin, which even then had a world advantage over its rivals, but also the poor results of Dolphin, which has gone from being the penultimate to being the last in the ranking. Firefox, one of the star browsers, is also still quite uneven, although its results are much better.
It must be said that this bad result of Dolphin It is both your fault and merit of UC, a browser that has greatly improved its results in recent years, coming in second in some tests behind Puffin. He is not the only one who has advanced, in any case, because he is also Chrome y Opera this time they have even surpassed the leader in the Browsermark test.
What is the price in RAM memory consumption?
It must be said that this analysis has not only looked at the speed of the different browsers, but has also made tests of RAM memory consumption, measuring them before opening any tabs and after having opened 5 of them. The results in this part of the test change radically, and now it is Puffin the one that is among those who reap the worst results, while Dolphin happens to be in the leading positions. The champion taking into consideration the two tests, in any case, is Chrome (63 MB for the first and 135 MB for the second).
This turn of events should not surprise us too much, in any case, because it is precisely thanks to the use they make of RAM as Puffin and other browsers that are among the fastest manage precisely to move faster (and after all, that's what it is for). This, in fact, is the one that gets the most out of it, because Firefox, for example, it consumes only slightly less memory and its speed is considerably lower.
Speed ​​vs memory: what is your priority?
Although some optimize the relationship better than others speed / memoryAs you can see at the end, the bottom line is what is most important to us, our usage habits with our mobile devices and what hardware we have. RAM, as we said, is to be used after all, and now that having 3 or 4 GB is increasingly common, it will not be so much a problem for many to use a more demanding browser in this section.
Even so, we may have more interest in freeing up memory for other uses or go a little fairer in this section and prefer to sacrifice some speed but ensure a more fluid operation in general for our devices in the multitasking section, if we do not dedicate too much of our time to navigate on our tablet or Android. Google in particular he is very committed to reduce the resource consumption of our devices, so we are not surprised that Chrome be the best option if this is our preference. It is interesting, in any case, to know what we win or lose in each case and choose according to our possibilities and needs.
