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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

Caching


I assume that you remember the three main pillars of a mobile device that we discussed in the Three main pillars section of Chapter 1, Pillars of Mobile Web Performance Optimization. Without a doubt, every developer should consider these three factors when they build a mobile website or application. Whether your site is for a small coffee shop or a larger online shop, you just cannot ignore these three factors, and this is why caching is important. It is an excellent way to download websites faster, saving some parts of them in your browser and then when you visit that site again you don't have to download or calculate that section again. Using the cache, the developer can improve speed, energy consumption, and user experience of his application or website.

Cache-Control

When we cache a file, it is available to reuse straightaway, which makes our application or website appear fast in performance. Also, enabling caching and using cache-control directives correctly, we can reduce unwanted...