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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

Chapter 3. How to Optimize Your Mobile Website

In the previous chapter, you learned about the essentials of Mobile Web Optimization. I can assure you, the technics that you have learned so far are very powerful and very easy to implement, but the outcome they produce is massive. So, I would like to expand on that area more in this chapter.

When developing a website, the frontend developer plays a huge role. Having your development team apply frontend optimization techniques to your mobile website can dramatically improve the site's performance for mobile users. As I discussed in the previous chapter, many of those frontend principles are fairly straightforward to implement.

To go through with this chapter, I assume you have a basic knowledge of frontend web development. In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Use of HTML5 and CSS3

  • CSS animation versus JavaScript

  • Iconic fonts

  • How to use media queries

  • Displaying none in CSS

  • Video and images via media queries

  • CSS preprocessors

  • Minifying...