Tokyo Fashion Test | ☆東京著衣☆試驗

Here I propose a test to measure the performance of browser for female online shoppers in Taiwan. I chose Tokyo Fashion (☆東京著衣☆) as the testing website because:

1. This is one of the largest online shopping site in Taiwan
2. If a browser performs badly in this medium sized (only 207 image files) shopping webpage, it's not worth it.

Browser	Load Time	Left text menu	width boundary	my take
Webkit svn 19569:	11s	fair	screwed	Fast
Linux Firefox 1.5.0.9:	13s	fair	screwed	Fast
Win Firefox 1.5.0.9:	16s	fair	screwed	Fair
MSIE 6.0.2900.2180:	17s	fair	fair	Great
Camino 1.0.3:	23s	fair	screwed	Fair
Safari 2.0.4 (419.3):	53s	screwed	screwed	Forget it.

Note: Safari, Webkit and Camino were tested on an iMac Core Duo while Firefox, MSIE were tested on a PC with low end Pentium 4. Browser caches were flushed before the testing.

This requires more studies to identify the components that have impact on the performance or rendering.