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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

Move bits when no one is watching


When users sign up for Instagram, they are asked to fill out some basic details. While this is going on, in the background, Instagram starts looking for recommendations on who to follow.

The result is that by the time the user submits the form with their account information, recommendations are presented nearly instantly.

Instagram uses the same trick on image uploads. After you select the filter for your image, you can choose options such as where to share the image, or geotag it with a location. All the while, Instagram is already uploading the image in the background to reduce the time users have to wait at the end of the process.

It is worth noting that in both of the cases, there's a very high likelihood that the person will end up moving forward to those next pages. It's a slippery slope between moving bits while no one is watching and using up everyone's bandwidth and data for pages they may never view and assets they may never need. But if there is...