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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

Mobile-only websites versus responsive websites


A couple of years ago I was given the opportunity to build a website for an insurance company. The website was modern, and it had many features. Even a user was able to customize and purchase an insurance policy by spending a couple of minutes browsing the website. After launching the website, the client realized that he had an excellent opportunity to enter the mobile market because back then, mobile browsing was in its early stages. So, the following month he contacted us and asked us to build a mobile version of the website.

When we read the requirement, we realized that the mobile website had a similar functionality; only the UI was going to be different. So, we used the same codebase that the desktop version had, and we created a new website using the existing code. This was a popular method at that time, and the mobile website had a different URL. Once the user entered the original website using a mobile device, our script detected the...