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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

Minifying CSS and JavaScript


When we develop our websites, we often leave white space and comments in our code so humans can easily read and understand it. However, when the code file is being executed on our devices, excess white spaces and comments no longer convey a meaning to humans. So, if we can remove the extra characters from our files, it will reduce our file size and enhance the performance of our website. There are many tools available out there that we can use to remove unnecessary characters (minify them) from our code.

Minifying CSS

In the preceding section, I discussed CSS preprocessors. Both SASS and LESS have CSS minifying options that developers can easily use. The main advantage of CSS preprocessor minification is that developers are never going to touch the CSS file and only work with .sass or .less. So, they can keep the white space and comments in their raw file and when compiling, all the unnecessary characters will be removed. Apart from that, there are many online...