Performance evaluation of web browsers in iOS platform

Abstract

The number of mobile users have grown tremendously in the past few years. Nowadays, mobile phones are not just used for the purpose of making calls, rather they have become an important modern gadget which helps people in various aspects of their lives. With this increase, a lot of time on mobile is spent in browsing the internet websites through mobile web browsers. Hence, mobile web browsers actually play an important role in the mobile market, and in the lives of the users. In this paper, we have analyzed the performance of six web browsers present in the iOS platform. These web browsers are selected based on their market share in the iOS platform and their popularity. We have evaluated them on different parameters such as browser features, speed, security, performance benchmark tests, plugin support and video streaming. We propose the best web browser based on each parameter used for performance evaluation. Also, we recommend the best web browser based on the overall performance evaluation. © 2017 IEEE.