UCWeb – Tech Raman https://techraman.com Simplified Tech Talk Thu, 09 Oct 2014 11:12:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://techraman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/TR_logo-150x120.png UCWeb – Tech Raman https://techraman.com 32 32 Opera refutes UCWeb, claims its Opera Mini browser indeed is the fastest https://techraman.com/opera-refutes-ucweb-claims-opera-mini-browser-indeed-fastest/ https://techraman.com/opera-refutes-ucweb-claims-opera-mini-browser-indeed-fastest/#respond Thu, 09 Oct 2014 11:12:23 +0000 http://techraman.com/?p=7918 ]]> The swords are out and Opera and UCWeb are in no mood to keep them down. UCBrower recently declared that their UC browser for Android is the fastest kid around and went on to pull the rug under the rival Opera by saying the UC 9.8 is faster than Opera Mini when loading Facebook from mobile phones. It didn’t take much time for Opera to return with a vengeance and with a report on hand. Opera has now pounced back on UCWeb by not just refuting the claim but saying that unless an independent report vouches for the UC story, their in-house report card is just not credible enough. Further they have asked a third-party testing firm to conduct the tests and see how wins the lighting browser on the smartphone crown. Cigniti Technologies, an independent software testing service firm has been approached by Opera to conduct a benchmarking test to compare Facebook load times on Opera Mini vs UC 9.8. And here is what Opera claims the results are from the independent test ” Opera Mini opens Facebook 34% faster on a 3G network and 27% faster on a 2G network compared to UC 9.8” So UCWeb your turn now. For now, it is advantage Opera.

How the browser test was conducted

Cigniti conducted the performance benchmarking exercise for the Opera Mini browser on the mid-range Samsung Grand 2 device, which is one of India’s best-selling Android smartphones. It has Android KitKat 4.4.2 version with Qualcomm MSM8226 Snapdragon 400 chipset, Quad-core Cortex CPU of 1.2 GHz and internal memory of 1 GB RAM. To find out the page loading time for Facebook (m.facebook.com) on Opera Mini and UC 9.8, the test was carried out using Airtel 2G and 3G mobile SIM carriers at a high signal strength. There were 250 iterations on both browsers on 3G and 2G network. The Caches and histories of each browser were cleared before every iteration and the “Page Load Time” i.e. the time taken to load the page was captured for all the iterations.]]>

]]> https://techraman.com/opera-refutes-ucweb-claims-opera-mini-browser-indeed-fastest/feed/ 0 Opera refutes UCWeb, claims its Opera Mini browser indeed is the fastest https://techraman.com/opera-refutes-ucweb-claims-opera-mini-browser-indeed-fastest/ https://techraman.com/opera-refutes-ucweb-claims-opera-mini-browser-indeed-fastest/#respond Thu, 09 Oct 2014 11:12:23 +0000 http://techraman.com/?p=7918 ]]> The swords are out and Opera and UCWeb are in no mood to keep them down. UCBrower recently declared that their UC browser for Android is the fastest kid around and went on to pull the rug under the rival Opera by saying the UC 9.8 is faster than Opera Mini when loading Facebook from mobile phones. It didn’t take much time for Opera to return with a vengeance and with a report on hand. Opera has now pounced back on UCWeb by not just refuting the claim but saying that unless an independent report vouches for the UC story, their in-house report card is just not credible enough. Further they have asked a third-party testing firm to conduct the tests and see how wins the lighting browser on the smartphone crown. Cigniti Technologies, an independent software testing service firm has been approached by Opera to conduct a benchmarking test to compare Facebook load times on Opera Mini vs UC 9.8. And here is what Opera claims the results are from the independent test ” Opera Mini opens Facebook 34% faster on a 3G network and 27% faster on a 2G network compared to UC 9.8” So UCWeb your turn now. For now, it is advantage Opera.

How the browser test was conducted

Cigniti conducted the performance benchmarking exercise for the Opera Mini browser on the mid-range Samsung Grand 2 device, which is one of India’s best-selling Android smartphones. It has Android KitKat 4.4.2 version with Qualcomm MSM8226 Snapdragon 400 chipset, Quad-core Cortex CPU of 1.2 GHz and internal memory of 1 GB RAM. To find out the page loading time for Facebook (m.facebook.com) on Opera Mini and UC 9.8, the test was carried out using Airtel 2G and 3G mobile SIM carriers at a high signal strength. There were 250 iterations on both browsers on 3G and 2G network. The Caches and histories of each browser were cleared before every iteration and the “Page Load Time” i.e. the time taken to load the page was captured for all the iterations.]]>

]]> https://techraman.com/opera-refutes-ucweb-claims-opera-mini-browser-indeed-fastest/feed/ 0 'UC Open Platform' offers key solutions and metrics for Developers and Publishers https://techraman.com/uc-open-platform-offers-key-solutions-metrics-developers-publishers/ https://techraman.com/uc-open-platform-offers-key-solutions-metrics-developers-publishers/#respond Wed, 08 Oct 2014 06:11:49 +0000 http://techraman.com/?p=7912 ]]> Three years into the Indian market and after announcing ‘grow in India’ initiative some time back, UCWeb took to the GMIC (Global Mobile Internet Conference), Bangalore to unveil the ‘UC Open Platform’.

So what is UC Open Platform?

UCWeb, an Alibaba Group company, is bringing the UC browser 9Apps and 9Game distribution platforms and the UC Union mobile traffic network under one pillar. What is it aimed at? The open platform will help various third-party players like the mobile developers, content providers, publishers, advertisers to take advantage of the collective data and various services UCWeb offers. Talking about the new platform, Kenny Ye, Managing director of UCWeb India said ‘Unveiling the platform marks an important milestone in our goal of facilitating a mobile internet ecosystem that is designed to benefit every participants’ The new platform is expected to be a good analytical tool as well as monetization program for developers, publishers and advertisers as they can now access actionable user metric analysis as well as engage with users via brand promotion and work on user/traffic acquisition and also indulge in brand promotion. While the app ecosystem is seeing a positive growth in India, it is till a long way to go for the Indian developers to make routine appearances in the top cream of apps in various platforms. In this context, the UC Open platform by offering insights on user engagement and behavior metrics and brand promotion opportunities provides a good leverage for the developers and publishers.

Some key info from UCWeb

  • India is now the third largest smartphone market behind only China and the US.
  • India has the highest growing mobile market in Asia Pacific region with 186% year-on-year smartphone shipment growth
  • India accounts for ONLY 5% of global app downloads
  • Lack of domestic market contents
  • Lack of integrated metrics and promotional leverage for Indian publishers
  • The number of daily page-views on UC browser has increased 91.7%
  • E-commerce site traffic on UC browser grew 30% per month in the first half of 2014
  • 9Apps and 9Game distribution expected to open their Mumbai office shortly.
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