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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have discussed the importance of reducing HTTP requests and how to do so by using techniques such as CSS sprites and combining files. Also, we talked about the enabling of Gzip on the server and its benefits. We have discussed the importance of image optimization and the tools that we can use to do so. We have also discussed a few free online tools that we can make use of, and found that they are easy to handle. After this, we discussed content management and why it is necessary to remove duplicate contents. Finally, we explored the importance of UX and its effects on a mobile site.

In the next chapter, we will take a look at the techniques that we can use to optimize our mobile website. The chapter will guide you on how to use HTML 5, CSS3, media quarries, and much more.