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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

Less work for the end user


Each of the principles mentioned earlier is ultimately about reducing the amount of time it takes for the user to complete a given task. The importance of task completion can't be overlooked. There's the classic study conducted by UIE back in 2001 on the impact of the time taken to complete a task on a visitor's perception of performance. Researchers sat people down in front of 10 different sites using a 56 kbps modem and gave them tasks to complete.

The surprise came when people rated the slowest site (http://www.amazon.com/) as one of the fastest when asked. The reason was that http://www.amazon.com/ allowed people to complete their tasks in fewer steps.

Ultimately, this is what it comes down to: how fast the user feels the site is. You can go a long way by implementing the performance techniques so frequently cited for developers, but to influence how your users feel about the performance of your site, performance optimization has to involve the designer.

If you...