Mobile Web Browsing Benchmarks 2026
Today, we are proud to celebrate a major milestone: Android is now the fastest mobile platform for web browsing.
Through deep vertical integration across hardware, the Android OS, and the Chrome engine, the latest flagship Android devices are setting new performance records, outperforming all other mobile competitors in the key web performance benchmarks Speedometer and LoadLine and providing a level of responsiveness previously unseen on mobile.
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Where traditional benchmarks often focus on synthetic tasks, LoadLine uses recorded, stable versions of select real-world websites. This includes simpler and more complex sites with varied characteristics, reflecting the most important types of mobile web content, such as shopping, search, and news portals.
LoadLine has proven that Android’s page load performance is world-class: Top tier Android phones score up to 47% higher than non-Android competitors. And this matters: LoadLine scores also correlate well (-0.8) with median and high-percentile page load latency in the field.
Speedometer is a benchmark anyone can run just by visiting the benchmark’s website. Running LoadLine, especially on an iOS device, is an enormous hassle that involves two USB-C-to-Ethernet adapters, enabling Remote Automation and the Web Inspector in Safari, installing custom certificates on the iOS device, and installing custom software on an attached Mac.
You will be shocked to learn that the three unnamed Android phones outscored the “competing mobile phone” by significantly larger margins on LoadLine than Speedometer.
Likely due to corporate lameness, they didn’t put specific labels on their bar chart, they just identified that 3 Android OEMs have devices that performed better on the Speedometer 3.1 benchmark than some “competing mobile phone platform”.
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I happen to be someone who has the fastest iPhone and the fastest Android phone from the most popular Android maker in the US: the iPhone 17 Pro and Galaxy S26 Ultra.
I guess today is a day of benchmarks for me, because I literally just posted a bunch of benchmarks, including GeekBench scores which showed the Galaxy matching the iPhone in single-core, and beating it in multi-core.
But yeah, I get the same results as Google did, although the iPhone scored a bit lower on my device for some reason[…]
Previously:
- Optimizing WebKit & Safari for Speedometer 3.0
- Recalling Apple v. Qualcomm
- Intel’s M1 Benchmarks
- Chrome vs. Safari: Energy Use and Compatibility
