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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

Design tools


Mobile web optimization requires teamwork; it's not just the developer's job to enhance the performance of a website. Project plan, designs, developments, and QA all should be linked together to achieve a performance goal. If we take the designers, they play a huge role in developing a website. So, they have to be involved when they do their visuals. For example, we all know how flawed designing websites with software like Photoshop is.

I think the more it gets discussed, the more we realize that, as with any tool, Photoshop has many positives as well as negatives. We'll never fully get rid of image manipulation software in the design process and, frankly, that shouldn't be the goal. But it's important to consider what shortcomings it has so that our process can take them into account.

One valid concern about spending too much time in Photoshop versus the browser is that you see a picture of a website under ideal situations and at a particular, exact size. This is frequently cited...