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Re:Peak Chrome? Google's browser falls as Firefox, Internet ... by btilly on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @02:44AM (#4600843)
Given the mechanics of Chrome prefetching, % of page views figures are somewhat suspect. (Yes, they try to correct for that, but are the corrections correct?)
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Re:Peak Chrome? Google's browser falls as Firefox, Internet ... by ksec on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @07:25AM (#4601464)
Wouldn't prefetching actually bumps up the page view?
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Re:Peak Chrome? Google's browser falls as Firefox, Internet ... by btilly on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @08:32AM (#4601612)
Yes. And when you artificially bump Chrome's page views, Chrome looks better.
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