Picture the scene if you will – your team has created a killer web-based application using the latest techniques, which does everything under the sun, and you're ready to sit back and enjoy the laurels of your success. Except for one small but rather critical thing…
No one is buying. Not one copy of your application is being sold – the reason why? Simple – it's really slow and hasn't been properly optimized. No amount of selling will get over the fact that in this age of mobile devices, a slow application will turn off the users.
Should we be concerned with the performance of our application? Absolutely! There are good reasons for being critical of our application's performance; let's take a look at a few:
The advent of mobile devices with the associated costs of surfing means that our content must be optimized to ensure the site displays quickly, before the connection times out
It's all too easy to focus on development instead of fixing cross-browser...