Unbelievable: BlackBerry’s browser is actually the fastest of any mobile platform

Welp. They got one thing right.

In a recent study conducted by app-data-crunching startup New Relic, the nerds found out that BlackBerry’s mobile browser can load a page in about a second and a half.

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The next closest competitor in terms of mobile browser speed takes nearly 5 seconds to load the same page. Who ever would have thought it?

Here are some more fascinating stats on web page load times, market share by platform, and other handy data points you’d want to know if you were building a website or web app: