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Mobile Web Performance Optimization

By : S. S. Niranga
Book Image

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

Chapter 5. Monitoring and Debugging Our Website

In the previous chapters, we went through some of the techniques that we can use to improve our website's performance. Actually, most of the methods that we discussed were straightforward and really easy to implement. As an example, optimizing images, minifying CSS and JS, and using CSS3 and HTML as much as possible is really doable with minimum front-end development knowledge. However, using caching techniques, optimizing JavaScript, and choosing a CSS framework for your website requires some expertise in the domain. So, if you are going to build a website by hiring a third-party agency or a freelancer, you should always consider these factors. Because, every developer doesn't have the skills to build for performance.

In this chapter, I am going to discuss an interesting area. That is, how to monitor and debug your mobile website. Actually, you don't have to be a developer to go through with this chapter and use the methods that I am going...