iOS performance in the spotlight ahead of Apple's launch event
In the run up to Apple's latest eagerly anticipated launch event, mobile benchmarking specialist Crittercism has released an Apple edition of its Mobile Experience Benchmark Report.
Focussing on statistics gathered from over a billion users across more than 120 countries it looks at key performance metrics including crash rates across iOS versions and devices along with latency by carrier and Wi-Fi.
Highlights include the finding that 46 percent of iOS apps have a crash rate of over one percent and 30 percent a rate of more than 2 percent. For comparison, on the web the norm for crash rates is 0.1 percent.
Looking at crashes by operating system, iOS 7 and 7.1 have the highest crash rate at 2.1 percent. Broken down by hardware the iPhone 5s crashes least (1.9 percent) whilst the iPad Mini crashes most (2.4 percent).
Apps on iPhones generally seem to be more stable than on iPads, but game apps are the most likely to crash. Photo and video apps are the next most crash prone with health and fitness and business apps being least likely.
If you want the most responsive carriers you need to be in Japan, the USA rates only 5th but there are regional differences which we'll come to shortly. China is slowest for carrier response. Those who prefer Wi-Fi should move to France which has the fastest iOS Wi-Fi responsiveness of any G20 country with India being the slowest.
In the US you’ll find the fastest iOS carrier responsiveness in Raleigh and the slowest in Kansas City. For Wi-Fi Virginia Beach is the best place to take your iOS device while Cleveland is the worst. Overall across the US it's T-Mobile that’s the fastest carrier for mobile users with AT&T and Verizon tied for second place.
The full report is available from the Crittercism website. Ahead of the general availability of iOS 8 Crittercism has also released a performance tracker which will monitor how the new OS performs through the launch and beyond.
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