Page Rendering Speeds for Recent Browsers

any benchmarking tools available?

[Yoeri]

I am searching for a speed comparison of the latest browsers (IE6 Mozilla and Opera).

Are there any benchmark-tools to test the rendering of a page on the different clients?

Thanks

[tedster]

An interesting question, Yoeri. I searched for a while and didn't come up with much.

A related issue is how fast is the rendered material actually active, that is, scripts and links are usable and so on. Sometimes a browser will render at least some visible content but it's not really usable until more is downloaded.

O'Reilly offers a book called "Web Performance Tuning" which examines browser speed testing, but most of the book is server side tuning, if my memory serves well. However, it might offer you some directions if you can get your hands on a copy/

[amznVibe]

Apple has talked about all sorts of benchmarks they did before saying Safari was the fastest browser (up to 3 times faster than IE? suuurree..) but they are keeping the results internal, which really makes me not want to believe it more.

This is not quite what you were asking for, but javascript benchmarks have been around for awhile and they might give you some idea. For example, my IE 6.1 beats the pants off Opera 7 on this page, but I doubt its a great "real world" example.

[plaza.harmonix.ne.jp...] (I have no idea who wrote that, it just seems to work)
or here [home.netvigator.com...]

here's a very informal test using a standard file from the java sdk [loudthinking.com...]