Big Tech Collab: Apple, Google, Mozilla Join Forces For The Next Speedometer

Apple Inc. AAPL, Alphabet Inc. GOOG GOOGL and Mozilla are collaborating to create Speedometer 3. 

What Happened: Apple's WebKit team announced that the tech giant, along with Google and Firefox, are teaming up to work on the latest version of Speedometer, a benchmark that measures the responsiveness of web applications. 

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We’re excited to work with @googlechrome and @firefox on the next Speedometer benchmark, which measures real-world browser performance on the Web. Working together will help us further improve the benchmark and improve browser performance for our users.https://t.co/8NoPzoh9mF pic.twitter.com/21EjlN1u3z

— WebKit (@webkit) December 15, 2022

Why It's Important: Apple's WebKit team released Speedometer 1.0 in 2014 as a benchmark for web app responsiveness. In 2018, it announced Speedometer 2.0 to help users optimize their browser engines for the modern web. 

According to a Chromium blog post, in May, Google Chrome became the fastest web browser on Mac by outpacing Safari in Apple's Speedometer browser responsiveness tests. Chrome scored over 300 on Apple's Speedometer 2.0 on the M1 Macbook, becoming the highest-scoring browser on the Speedometer. 

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