Squid to speed up my surfing?

[SimÃn <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Hi,
    I use squid in my home, it's for personal use. My unique intention 
to install Squid in my PC is to speed up my surfing with: cache (Squid), 
Precatching (squid-prefetch) and block advertising banners 
(bannerfilter). How can I measure if really this is to speed up my surfing?

    Do you know another program (proxy or similar) more optimum to 
this  task for a home PC?

    Thanks. Regards.