Apple partners with Google, Mozilla to develop Speedometer 3

San Francisco, Dec 16 (IANS) Apple has partnered with Google and Mozilla to develop Speedometer 3, a benchmark for testing browser performance.Apple's WebKit team announced the collaboration over Twitter."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," it tweeted.Currently, Speedometer 3 is in active development and more information will be shared in the near future."Speedometer 3 is in active development and is unstable. You can follow along with development in this repository, but see Speedometer 2.1 for the latest stable version," reads WebKit's Github page.Speedometer is a benchmark for web browsers that measures Web application responsiveness by timing simulated user interactions on various workloads.The company says that its primary goal is to make it reflect the real-world Web as much as possible.When a browser improves its score on the benchmark, actual users should benefit, and in order to achieve this, it should test end-to-end user journeys instead of testing specific features in a tight loop, the company mentioned.Moreover, it should evolve over time, adapting to the present Web on a regular basis, and be accessible to the public and useful to browser engineers.
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