Google has posted benchmarks from its personal testing with its Chrome browser on the Mac, and the outcomes present a pleasant velocity enchancment. In Speedometer 3.1 exams, Chrome posted a rating of 61, which is a 5 % enchancment over outcomes posted a 12 months in the past. Chrome additionally recorded a rating of 469 in JetStream 3 exams, which is a ten % enhance.
Whereas a 5 to 10 % enhance doesn’t appear to be a lot, take into account that final 12 months, Google reported a 22 % Speedometer enchancment from 2024 to 2025. In order that’s a sizeable 30 % increase over a two-year span. Sooner is all the time higher, particularly in relation to browsers, since net content material and websites have gotten an increasing number of advanced.
Google states that it carried out most of its optimizations on JavaScript. One optimization includes “quick paths” the place the browser’s engine can skip pointless execution steps. The dealing with of async and generator capabilities has been improved, optimized BigInt dealing with, and extra. Non-JavaScript optimizations embrace WebAssembly objects, rendering engine model computations, page-loading and text-handling, and vector gaphics rendering.
Google’s report doesn’t state what model of Chrome was examined, although the testing was finished on macOS Tahoe 26.0.1. Google additionally didn’t present any check outcomes on Apple’s Safari browser for comparability. I wasn’t capable of replicate Google’s outcomes whereas operating Speedometer or JetStream, however my testing circumstances will not be the identical as Google’s, and Google didn’t outline their check mattress of their report.
The present model of Chrome is 149.0.7827.54. To replace Chrome, launch the browser after which go to Chrome > About Google Chrome. In the primary window, the highest of the About Chrome will present the model you’re utilizing and whether or not an replace is offered. Chrome might want to relaunch to finish the replace.