Selenium

This test profile uses the Selenium WebDriver for running various browser benchmarks in different available web browsers.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark system/selenium.

Project Site

seleniumhq.org

Test Created

13 March 2019

Last Updated

13 March 2024

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel 

Test Type

System

Average Install Time

1 Minute, 38 Seconds

Average Run Time

6 Minutes, 27 Seconds

Test Dependencies

Python

Accolades

100k+ Downloads

Supported Platforms

Public Result Uploads *Reported Installs **Reported Test Completions **Test Profile Page Views ***OpenBenchmarking.orgEventsSelenium Popularity Statisticssystem/selenium2019.032019.052019.072019.092019.112020.012020.032020.052020.072020.092020.112021.012021.032021.052021.072021.092021.112022.012022.032022.052022.072022.092022.112023.012023.032023.052023.072023.092023.112024.012024.0311K22K33K44K55K
* Uploading of benchmark result data to OpenBenchmarking.org is always optional (opt-in) via the Phoronix Test Suite for users wishing to share their results publicly.
** Data based on those opting to upload their test results to OpenBenchmarking.org and users enabling the opt-in anonymous statistics reporting while running benchmarks from an Internet-connected platform.
*** Test profile page view reporting began March 2021.
Data updated weekly as of 21 April 2024.
Octane9.1%Kraken11.4%PSPDFKit WASM12.0%Jetstream 212.6%StyleBench8.3%Speedometer13.4%WASM imageConvolute11.3%WASM collisionDetection11.0%ARES-610.8%Benchmark Option PopularityOpenBenchmarking.org
Google Chrome40.6%Firefox59.4%Browser Option PopularityOpenBenchmarking.org

Revision History

system/selenium-1.0.39   [View Source]   Wed, 13 Mar 2024 10:32:49 GMT
Update Chrome 122 driver, add Speedometer 3.0 and Silverbench tests.

system/selenium-1.0.38   [View Source]   Thu, 14 Dec 2023 11:14:18 GMT
Update Chrome driver for Chrome 120 support.

system/selenium-1.0.37   [View Source]   Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:22:55 GMT
Update for Chrome 117 driver compatibility.

system/selenium-1.0.36   [View Source]   Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:48:14 GMT
Update for Chrome 115 compatibility.

system/selenium-1.0.35   [View Source]   Tue, 02 May 2023 19:35:57 GMT
Update Chrome driver for Chrome 113 compatibility.

system/selenium-1.0.34   [View Source]   Sun, 12 Mar 2023 18:50:14 GMT
Update driver for Chrome 111 compatibility.

system/selenium-1.0.33   [View Source]   Wed, 18 Jan 2023 07:31:56 GMT
Update for Google Chrome 109 compatibility.

system/selenium-1.0.32   [View Source]   Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:43:20 GMT
Update ChromeDriver for Chrome 107 compatibility.

system/selenium-1.0.31   [View Source]   Fri, 09 Sep 2022 19:53:24 GMT
Update upstream Chrome Driver for working with newest Chrome 105 builds.

system/selenium-1.0.30   [View Source]   Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:17:33 GMT
Update against Chrome 103 driver compatibility.

system/selenium-1.0.29   [View Source]   Sat, 30 Apr 2022 20:32:41 GMT
Update Chrome and Firefox drivers, namely for Chrome 101 compatibility.

system/selenium-1.0.28   [View Source]   Wed, 02 Mar 2022 19:50:40 GMT
Update Chrome Driver for Google Chrome 99 compatibility.

system/selenium-1.0.27   [View Source]   Thu, 06 Jan 2022 07:03:52 GMT
Update Chrome Driver against Chrome 97 compatibility.

system/selenium-1.0.26   [View Source]   Wed, 10 Nov 2021 05:11:34 GMT
Fix pip intallation path on Windows by using DEBUG_REAL_HOME.

system/selenium-1.0.25   [View Source]   Sat, 23 Oct 2021 06:31:53 GMT
Update Chrome driver for Chrome 95, version lock Selenium to 3.x since Selenium 4.0 is breaking things...

system/selenium-1.0.24   [View Source]   Sun, 26 Sep 2021 07:47:14 GMT
Update Chrome driver for Chrome v94, fix Kraken for new URL due to old benchmark location no longer active.

system/selenium-1.0.23   [View Source]   Sat, 14 Aug 2021 12:46:16 GMT
Update against latest Chrome and Firefox web drivers for compatibility.

system/selenium-1.0.22   [View Source]   Fri, 28 May 2021 05:30:21 GMT
Update against Chrome 91 web driver.

system/selenium-1.0.21   [View Source]   Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:50:48 GMT
Update against Chrome 89 web driver.

system/selenium-1.0.20   [View Source]   Sat, 21 Nov 2020 15:22:45 GMT
Update against latest Chrome and Gecko drivers.

system/selenium-1.0.19   [View Source]   Sat, 10 Oct 2020 06:59:33 GMT
Update Chrome Driver against v86.

system/selenium-1.0.18   [View Source]   Tue, 21 Jul 2020 17:04:54 GMT
Update against Chrome 84 driver.

system/selenium-1.0.17   [View Source]   Mon, 11 May 2020 14:01:18 GMT
Update against Chrome v83 driver.

system/selenium-1.0.16   [View Source]   Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:11:49 GMT
Fix for JetStream 2. Add Kraken along with a few more WebAssembly WASM benchmarks and GUIMark3 HTML5 tests.

system/selenium-1.0.15   [View Source]   Fri, 13 Dec 2019 06:25:07 GMT
Update Gecko driver.

system/selenium-1.0.14   [View Source]   Thu, 12 Dec 2019 17:27:59 GMT
Update for Chrome 79 driver support.

system/selenium-1.0.13   [View Source]   Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:19:32 GMT
Update downloads link.

system/selenium-1.0.12   [View Source]   Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:17:34 GMT
Add PSPDFKit WASM

system/selenium-1.0.11   [View Source]   Sun, 27 Oct 2019 18:11:52 GMT
Add StyleBench and Maze Solver benchmark tests.

system/selenium-1.0.10   [View Source]   Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:43:07 GMT
Add macOS support.

system/selenium-1.0.9   [View Source]   Sun, 15 Sep 2019 20:04:10 GMT
Update for Chrome 77

system/selenium-1.0.8   [View Source]   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 19:51:48 GMT
Update ChromeDriver for Chrome 76.

system/selenium-1.0.7   [View Source]   Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:28:06 GMT
Update chrome driver for Chrome 74

system/selenium-1.0.6   [View Source]   Thu, 28 Mar 2019 06:27:40 GMT
Add JetStream 2 benchmark.

system/selenium-1.0.5   [View Source]   Mon, 25 Mar 2019 09:22:11 GMT
Add CanvasMark test option, increase initial wait on page load from 4 to 6 seconds to help older systems.

system/selenium-1.0.4   [View Source]   Sun, 24 Mar 2019 21:01:31 GMT
Add Jetstream benchmark.

system/selenium-1.0.3   [View Source]   Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:50:06 GMT
Add pause after loading the initial page to allow the elements to load to avoid possible race condition. 4 seconds seems fine.

system/selenium-1.0.2   [View Source]   Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:33:21 GMT
Add Octane benchmark option.

system/selenium-1.0.1   [View Source]   Wed, 13 Mar 2019 20:02:45 GMT
Add Windows support.

system/selenium-1.0.0   [View Source]   Wed, 13 Mar 2019 19:20:02 GMT
Initial commit of selenium test profile to automate Chrome and Firefox web browser benchmarks.

Suites Using This Test

Web Browsers


Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

Selenium

Benchmark: CanvasMark - Browser: Google Chrome

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 457 public results since 25 March 2019 with the latest data as of 17 August 2023.

Below is an overview of the generalized performance for components where there is sufficient statistically significant data based upon user-uploaded results. It is important to keep in mind particularly in the Linux/open-source space there can be vastly different OS configurations, with this overview intended to offer just general guidance as to the performance expectations.

Component
Percentile Rank
# Compatible Public Results
Score (Average)
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core
97th
4
27863 +/- 1031
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core
96th
4
26506 +/- 141
Intel Core i7-1185G7
93rd
4
23141 +/- 484
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U
92nd
5
22381 +/- 725
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core
91st
3
21985 +/- 1886
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
84th
11
20785 +/- 303
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core
76th
3
19320 +/- 731
Mid-Tier
75th
< 19197
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core
74th
14
19042 +/- 2155
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core
66th
3
18130 +/- 999
Intel Core i9-9900K
61st
53
17215 +/- 2464
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core
61st
3
17101 +/- 304
Intel Core i9-7960X
61st
27
17078 +/- 1535
Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL
52nd
4
15783 +/- 246
Median
50th
15653
AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
48th
4
15391 +/- 808
Intel Core i7-1065G7
46th
27
15236 +/- 1243
Intel Core i7-8700K
35th
3
12341 +/- 1082
Intel Core i7-8550U
35th
9
12131 +/- 1343
AMD Ryzen 3 3200U
33rd
3
12050 +/- 902
Intel Core i7-8700B
31st
8
11828 +/- 117
Intel Core i5-8265U
28th
5
11494 +/- 776
Intel Core i7-4600U
26th
4
11288 +/- 512
Low-Tier
25th
< 11204
Intel Core i7-5600U
23rd
4
10928 +/- 747
AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core
21st
5
10437 +/- 708
Intel Core i7
17th
3
9504 +/- 961
AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
12th
3
5531 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-8086K
9th
6
5051 +/- 12
Intel Core i9-10900K
6th
12
4978 +/- 64
OpenBenchmarking.orgDistribution Of Public Results - Benchmark: CanvasMark - Browser: Google Chrome457 Results Range From 4228 To 132096 Score422867869344119021446017018195762213424692272502980832366349243748240040425984515647714502725283055388579466050463062656206817870736732947585278410809688352686084886429120093758963169887410143210399010654810910611166411422211678011933812189612445412701212957013212820406080100

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Selenium - Benchmark: CanvasMark - Browser: Google Chrome) has an average run-time of 14 minutes. By default this test profile is set to run at least 3 times but may increase if the standard deviation exceeds pre-defined defaults or other calculations deem additional runs necessary for greater statistical accuracy of the result.

OpenBenchmarking.orgMinutesTime Required To Complete BenchmarkBenchmark: CanvasMark - Browser: Google ChromeRun-Time1122334455Min: 3 / Avg: 13.3 / Max: 53

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 2%.

OpenBenchmarking.orgPercent, Fewer Is BetterAverage Deviation Between RunsBenchmark: CanvasMark - Browser: Google ChromeDeviation510152025Min: 0 / Avg: 2.02 / Max: 18

Tested CPU Architectures

This benchmark has been successfully tested on the below mentioned architectures. The CPU architectures listed is where successful OpenBenchmarking.org result uploads occurred, namely for helping to determine if a given test is compatible with various alternative CPU architectures.

CPU Architecture
Kernel Identifier
Verified On
Intel / AMD x86 64-bit
x86_64
(Many Processors)
ARMv8 64-bit
arm64
Apple, Apple M1

Recent Test Results

OpenBenchmarking.org Results Compare

1 System - 201 Benchmark Results

Ampere Altra Max - HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 - 16 x 32768 MB 3200MHz Samsung M393A4K40EB3-CWE

Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Standard Build 26085 - 10.0.26085.1 - 10.0.26085.1

1 System - 201 Benchmark Results

Ampere Altra Max - HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 - 16 x 32768 MB 3200MHz Samsung M393A4K40EB3-CWE

Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Standard Build 26085 - 10.0.26085.1 - 10.0.26085.1

1 System - 32 Benchmark Results

Intel Core i7-3820 - ASUS RAMPAGE IV FORMULA - Intel Xeon E5

Fedora 40 - 6.8.0-63.fc40.1.x86_64 - KDE Plasma 6.0.2

3 Systems - 24 Benchmark Results

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8

Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.7.0-060700-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2

1 System - 30 Benchmark Results

AMD Ryzen 5 8500G - ASUS TUF GAMING B650M-PLUS - 2 x 32768 MB 6200MHz KLEVV KD5BGUA80-62A320S

Microsoft Windows 10 Pro N Build 19045 - 10.0.19045.3930 - 31.0.24002.92

1 System - 1253 Benchmark Results

1 System - 30 Benchmark Results

Intel Core i5-6200U - LENOVO 20FU001QGE - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5

Linuxmint 21.3 - 6.5.0-14-generic - Cinnamon 6.0.4

1 System - 30 Benchmark Results

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-I GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8

Pop 22.04 - 6.6.6-76060606-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5

1 System - 104 Benchmark Results

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G - MSI MPG B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI - AMD Renoir

Arch rolling - 6.6.10-arch1-1 - KDE Plasma 5.27.10

1 System - 277 Benchmark Results

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASRock B650E PG Riptide WiFi - AMD Device 14d8

Clear Linux OS 40580 - 6.6.8-1393.native - GNOME Shell 45.2
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