Android Proves Faster Than iPhone (GOOG, AAPL)

Google's GOOG Android has proven to be faster than the Apple AAPL iPhone, in terms of opening web pages.

According to a study done by mobile website optimization company Blaze.io, Android opened a web page in 2.1 seconds, versus the 3.2 seconds it took an iPhone to open a page. The study did more than 40,000 downloads of pages belonging to Fortune 1000 companies.

84% of the time, the Android beat the iPhone.

The test included the Samsung Nexus S (Android 2.3), the Samsung Galaxy S (Android 2.2), the iPhone 4.3 and the iPhone 4.2. Pages were loaded using a strong WiFi connection, and each device loaded each Fortune 1000 website three times.

In the study, Blaze.io concludes, "Our conclusion is that JavaScript performance doesn't impact an average page load time. Apparently, JavaScript is already so optimized that it doesn't play a big role in the time it takes to load a page. It's likely that rich AJAX applications benefit from these improvements, but users should not expect their casual web surfing to move faster.”

The company was surprised by the results. Blaze.io said, "We assumed that similar hardware specs and the same WebKit foundation would make iPhone and Android's browsers perform equally. We assumed that a faster JavaScript engine equals a faster browser. We assumed that 3G would be way slower than WiFi, even under good conditions. All of these assumptions have been proven wrong when we actually measured those scenarios. Without measuring, you don't know when and where you need to optimize."