Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 DIY benchmark
By using a stop watch to calculate (so this is not Olympic accuracy) the speed to page loading in IE8B2 compared with IE7 and Firefox 3.0, I got the following benchmark on popular web sites. Conclusion is I see IE8 will be on par with Firefox 3.0 in terms of performance.
Hotmail
| IE7 | 11 seconds |
| IE8 Beta 2 | 6 seconds |
| Firefox 3 | 7 seconds |
| IE7 | 10 seconds |
| IE8 Beta 2 | 9 seconds |
| Firefox 3 | 8 seconds |
Gmail
| IE7 | 13 seconds |
| IE8 Beta 2 | 8 seconds |
| Firefox 3 | 8 seconds |
Yahoo! Mail (New AJAX version)
| IE7 | 10 seconds |
| IE8 Beta 2 | 10 seconds |
| Firefox 3 | 10 seconds |
