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No we're here at the k1 speed race track what better venue for a mobile browser speed test we've got three different browsers here we're gonna see it going with one over the other could give you an advantage that's right in order to make it a fair test we're all using the same phones we're all using iphone 5 s's we're all connected to the same 4G wireless hotspot we all make sure that we've cleared our caches cleared our cookies and cleared our browser history and what we're going to do is load three types of web pages okay we've got a new site a picture heavy website and a meteor rich site and i'm going to use chrome i'll be using safari I've got opera the underdog all right New York Times at first sure let's go NY key rhymes com I'm gonna go one two three go and I'll go thank you go all right all right one two three go all right we're off none you're out a gun I am still lagging way behind this part and I'm done all right I'm I you want some coffee Big Mike I'm taking a bit longer than I expected yeah I think it knows i press GO oh I was coming come on opera fun you sure we're all connected to the same 4g hotspot does it not like opera what do you think about moving on to it won't come back tomorrow and we'll see how this goes so it's just it got a hiccup but I mean I think that's a real world result it is yeah for whatever reason we that happens for sure all right well maybe it's going to do better in the next round all right where we going up we have one of my favorite websites pinterest.com water come on my family obvious i hope i spelled it right all right come on two three go all right we're off again and and Sharon done already problem I'm soaked I'm like a quarter of the wake up I'm done I want what the hell I think you that's why did you search for pinners man no no that was an accident so I'm done now shadow zone all right I wouldn't that one opera what are you killing me actually explode and everything done oh nice nice came through finally now we're later all right operas yeah me down okay last one giantbomb.com I love it already one two three go all right come on Johnny bomb time bomb come on come on Safari I think I'm like win this one again I might win this weekend Oh reading through the way there it's almost yes that's like almost there final girl Hank right seriously oh oh I got some HTML fun maybe our hot spots for two reception it's not super excellent no I'm done oh cool i win haha I'm step a little weird glitchy hiccup do you guys mind if we do that you get the HTML well we'd have to clear the cache yeah so guys let's redo this because my loading experience ran into a little glitch so we're going to clear our caches and try that one again it happened sometime doing a real-world test ready yeah yeah yeahs dogs kind of that one two three go all right oh gosh I'm nervous as an age up opera has the page up we're still on whitepages go no problems again maybe your dad's button is a reset all right 4g hotspot rebooted it says it's ready to go maybe that's gonna help us get a little extra speed one two three go all right wow this is so much better done yeah Oh done yeah oh dang I mean why water wasn't helped by that I knew it I'm sorry to say that I had a lot of I had a lot of hope for opera yeah but opera just flopping all over the place oh yeah real quick let's go through some how-to tips and quick tips for each of our browser okay all right so on opera a couple different things i would do to really optimize the speed here maybe actually get me to finish loading a page i'd go into settings and there's these the first two options here are for loading images you guys could turn load images off especially on a text heavy page like New York Times that might be helpful or if you want to keep your images there but change the quality of them I could change image quality from high down to low and see if that helps me and I'll just say briefly about Safari is that it is your default browser so any link you click on like an email or something it's gonna open in safari that's nice little perk right there but also if you have an iPad you can take advantage of the reading list so if you don't have time to read a story on a web page you want to just push it to your iPad you can totally do that very easily with Safari and chrome is jam packed with features one of my favorites is that one that preloads pages based on where the browser thinks you're going to go next and then another great one is tab sinking so if you're on Chrome desktop and you move over to your phone you're going to be able to load those exact same tabs pick up just where you left off all right we can all safely say that chrome was the winner of this particular test yeah yeah no chrome is the winner no no no I'm not cruel you know I'm me and Grill heroin it was good you pressed the button I press the magic button with my magical finger yes sorry guys you