An award winning science fair, which made it 1st place in the county! By Victor Lourng at age 12! Please share this with others and not copy any of this data. This experiment was conducted on January 27 to February 2, 2010! If you wonder what a web browser even is, visit http://whatbrowser.com/ . Creator homepage: http://victor.99k.org/

1. What is the fastest web browser?
A science fair project

2. Fastest Web Browser: A Science Fair Project
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3. Purpose
What is the effect of different web
browser on how fast the page loads?

4. Hypothesis
Hypothesis (based on research)
If I use Google Chrome, then the page
will load faster.

5. Experimental Design

6. Materials and Procedure (may not work on all Windows PCs)
Materials: (HP Pavilion w/ Windows Vista SP2 PC Requirements:)
Web Browsers, Camtasia Studio (or any high-frames video studio), Adobe Premiere Pro (or Premiere Elements/Windows Movie Maker), and an
internet connection
Procedures:
1. Start the browser you are testing in Safe Mode (and clear the private data - for Google
Chrome it is incognito mode)
2. Start Camtasia Studio and click “Record”
3. Type in the site URL address bar
4. Wait for it to completely load. The head back to Camtasia Studio and click “stop”. Then save
the file as an HQ AVI.
5. Open Adobe Premiere Pro
6. Open the recorded file and trim it into frames you need (from pressing the go button to the
time the progress bar disappears or when the has completely loaded)
7. Take note of the total time it took and record it.
8. Then repeat steps 4 to 8 if you are doing a round of sites. If you want to start a new round
of sites or switching browsers, close your browser and go back to step 1.

7. Charts and Graphs
Trial 1
Trial 2

8. Charts and Graphs
Trial 3

9. Images

10. Images

11. Images

12. Bonus Images: Minefield after I finished the experiment
April 16, 2010
• January 27, 2010 (below)
April 16, 2010

13. Results
As I did this experiment, I noticed that Google
Chrome had been faster than any other browser
(Although Wyzo was the fastest, it is in alpha and
it’s very unstable-it crashed 30+times when I
tested the browsers)

14. Conclusion
• During this experiment, I tested 10 browsers to see which one is
the fastest during this experiment. I learned how to measure
browser speed.
• My results from my experiment proved my hypothesis right.
Problems that may have affected my experiment is that too
many people may be on YouTube when it I tested Internet
Explorer, since it took 5 seconds to load.
• Another discovery that was made is that not all pages load at the
same time.
• Because I think that I did everything correctly and the results
were pretty accurate, the experiment went very well.

15. Works Cited
Google "Under the Hood." What Browser? 17 December 2009. <http://www.whatbrowser.org/en/more/>.
Microsoft "Measuring Browser Performance [outdated]." Microsoft Downloads. 2 December 2009. <http://
download.microsoft.com/download/4/1/E/41E87D81-DA93-4FCF-A8C8-1C098F0B848C/Measuring%20Browser
%20Performance.pdf>.