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May and June were good months for Firefox's Speedometer performance compared to Chrome. We're closing in while Chrome seems fairly static. In this visualization, lower in the graph is better. From https://arewefastyet.com/win10/benchmarks/overview?numDays=60.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It seems like an odd choice to put bigger numbers lower down, when we generally associate them with up. Any idea why it's visualized that way?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Could be a score about time. Small numbers = faster = better = up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it is so that on all graphs "lower" down is better. But agree it's kind of unusual layout. Looking at the graphs for Linux i wonder what happened in feb 11:th this year - where all values for Firefox got a lot worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sometimes the hardware or software configurations of the machines running the tests changes, or a bug in the test harness itself is fixed, which can skew all of the results at once.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] YodaDaCoda 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting that around 24 June Firefox got a fairly significant speed bump. Would love to know what changes(s) they made for that but that date doesn't coincide with a release and there's no version information on that site that I can see.