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by charcircuit 833 days ago
It means it is 5% faster. You are overcomplicating it.
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Percentages are rarely informative without an absolute reference.

A 5% raise for someone who makes $20k per year is $1k, whereas a 5% raise for someone who makes $200k is $10k, which would be a 50% raise for the former.

You've demonstrated you understand how to use the score to compare both inter-browser performance (analogous to the amount each makes per year) as well as individual browser performance improvements (analogous to the amount of the raise). Seems pretty informative to me?