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Web browsing is a complex process. How fast stuff is pulled and pushed is just part of overall performance. Web pages include scripts, objects, and images that need to be processed locally. Some CPUs and renderers (browser/browser helper) are optimized for specific objects. This is why such pedestrian benchmarks are more political than useful.
It would make much more sense to measure performance doing the specific tasks. I can't find the article to link or quote, but one NYTimes review talked about this issue as it applied to Netflix. He walked around his office watching a movie on an ipad and a fire hd. While both streamed even outside the building, the ipad was consistently SD while the Fire was HD. For me, this would be a more important metric than holding a stopwatch on the loading of a web page.
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