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Mobile Web Performance Optimization

By : S. S. Niranga
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Mobile Web Performance Optimization

By: S. S. Niranga

Overview of this book

With users increasingly accessing the web on mobile devices, it’s crucial to make sure your website is built to seamlessly fit this radical change in user behavior. Mobile Web Performance Optimization is designed to help you do exactly that – it’s been created to help you build fast, and mobile-user-friendly websites and applications. Featuring guidance through a range of techniques and tools essential to modern mobile development, this accessible guide will make sure you’re delivering a seamless and intuitive experience for your website’s users. Begin by exploring the fundamental components of mobile web design and website optimization, before learning how to put the concepts into practice. Featuring cross-platform solutions, insights on developing lightweight yet robust UI, and insights on how to successfully manage data, this application development book takes you through every stage in the development process – so you can be confident that you’re asking the right questions and using the best tools in the most effective way. By the end, you’ll understand implicitly what it means to ‘build for performance’- you’ll be a more confident developer, capable of building projects that adapt to a changing world.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Mobile Web Performance Optimization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Why design and UX are important


UX is not a new concept to the mobile world. Because of the limitations of the mobile devices many designers and developers give their attention to UX but, the question of compromising between performance and UX still seeks a clear answer.

The fundamental of mobile UX is very similar to desktop UX. However, the mobile technology is still evolving at a rapid pace, and the UX best practices are still emerging.

Mobile UX is all about how to keep the balance between, things that you are going to keep on the home page and how are you going to manage the rest of the contents. Also, it is really important that you provide a strong visual element to the user to help, how to navigate the site. As an example, you should clearly define the clickable area in your website or application. Without clearly defined buttons, the user will get confused, and they will spend more time trying to find the website's behavior.

The following are a few points that you can consider when...