Google has recently conducted a study on web browsing speed, measuring web page load speeds on desktop computers and mobile devices. This involved analyzing web speed in 50 countries with the fastest Internet connections, and brought some interesting figures.

Here’s what they found from the study:

• Slovak Republic has the fastest average time for loading web pages on a desktop computer, i.e., 3.3 seconds.
• South Korea was the fastest in mobile with an average loading time of 4.8 seconds.
• U.S.A. takes an average of 5.7 seconds for desktop computer and 9.2 seconds on a mobile device.
• Indonesia has the slowest web page loading speed on desktop, i.e., 20.3 seconds.
• United Arab Emirates has the slowest mobile loading speed of 26.7 seconds.

What’s more is that the overall web browsing has increased compared to last year. The Real User Monitoring by New Relic, which monitors about 750 million page views a day, 5 billion a week and 20 billion a month for 20,000 active accounts, reveals some interesting data as below:

– Browsing speed is improving: Last year the average click took 6 seconds, this year it’s 5.5 seconds, with an Apdex customer satisfaction score of .87 (good, but not great).

– Chrome on Mac is by far the fastest experience: Specifically Chrome 13 on Mac took just under 2.5 seconds (2.4 seconds to be exact!)

While Google revealed this web browsing speed information, it was also working on speeding up its own mobile browser.  In February Google launched the portable edition of its Chrome web-browser for devices running on Android 4.0 OS, bringing more desktop functionality to your handset.

As companies are upping the ante with a steady stream of updates to their browsers, it’s the end users that ultimately reap the benefits.  Browsers are becoming faster, and at the same time, usability is improved.  And the hope is browsers will only continue to get faster.