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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

Third-party plugins


Connecting and using third-party applications has increased in the last couple of years, and this may slow down your application. I think this is a huge issue that we face these days, and if an external plugin takes a longer period to load, it will have an enormous effect on customer experience.

Most of the time, third-party applications provide a broad range of functionality, such as widgets, analytics, ads, and tracking software. However, they can cause performance issues.

The issue with third-party applications is responsiveness and availability. Some scripts may be optimized for performance but most are not. Also, even if you are using a reliable third-party script, it may have an outage.

Using a third-party application may bring many functionalities to your application. However, it is important to decide if it is worth the risk because one line of third-party application code can crash your application.

To minimize the impact of the third-party application on your application...