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I'm not quite clear on what's being 'tested' in these videos. The idea is give a practical visual comparison of really, really fast things to google chrome loa
by furyg3 17y ago
I'm not quite clear on what's being 'tested' in these videos. The idea is give a practical visual comparison of really, really fast things to google chrome loading a web page.
Because it's so practical, you don't need a tesla coil to duplicate it yourself (and be disappointed). Go to google, search for pandora, and click on the first link. Okay, so clearly they're not talking about transfer/load/rendering times. Let's click refresh. Well that was quite a bit faster, wasn't it? But still no lightning bolt.
Cool video, but I'd be worried that users will be underwhelmed when they test it for themselves...
- castis 17y agowhy do you hate fun?
- furyg3 17y ago:) I don't! I think this video is absolutely awesome, and I deeply, deeply wish that I could trade in my current line of work to make these videos for a living. That being said, I can't replicate Chrome's load times as seen in that video :)
- mturmon 17y agoThe tedious parts of the job are left on the (proverbial) cutting room floor. Like construction projects, there's a lot of people just standing around waiting at a shoot.
- 124816 17y agoRefresh often disables the cache, or at least does a bunch of if-modified-since requests. Better to type the url again and hit enter.
- qwzybug 17y agoSemi-agreed. If you look closely, the mouse pointer (which they use to activate Chrome) is positioned over the "Forward" button in the browser; it looks like they let a page load completely, navigate back to Google, then the speed test is how long it takes to rerender the page from the cache. Still, totally awesome ad. Loved every second.