A bit confused about chrome results

[pmeenan]

Much better now: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120320_A0_3NE2T/

Current theory is that Chrome is setting up the various caches on first access (when it notices that it's not there because I'm testing with a clean profile).

Instead of starting from about:blank I made a change so that the browsers start from a blank HTML page that is served from localhost on the test agents (they already have an embedded web server for talking between the extension and the c++ code so it was an easy change).

I feel pretty good about that as not being "cheating" since I'm doing it for all of the browsers and users will hardly ever have a completely clean user profile.

Thanks again for pointing it out.

-Pat