Turbo test disappointing

[billhaywood96]

billhaywood96 last edited by

I just saved the following page, [http://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/691536/Prince-snatched-up-Purple-Rain-house-for-117-000-eight-months-before-his-death] with both Opera turbo setting and Firefox.

Size:

Opera turbo: 6,497,528 bytes

Firefox: 5,369,036 bytes

What gives? I was hoping Opera would help me stay under my Hughesnet download cap.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Not an appropriate test. Opera received the file compressed but did not save it that way.

[billhaywood96]

billhaywood96 last edited by

So is there a way to demonstrate that Opera cuts bandwidth or are we to take this on faith?

[blackbird71]

blackbird71 last edited by

You would have to measure the downward traffic volume when Opera freshly opens the page, both with and without Turbo activated.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Right, use a USB modem - they usually show the flow.