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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have discussed why we should build for performance and how we can convince our clients to approve a budget for performance. It is crucial to get the client on your side as early as possible. As I have mentioned, you can use an online tool such as WebPagetest to generate visuals so that you can convince your client easily. Sometimes, we tend to leave the optimization bit to a latter part of the project. This is really dangerous and ineffective, and you should plan and start optimization at the beginning of the project. Again, it is vital to invest in performance, and I have explained how we can do that aligning with your budget.

Also in the chapter, I have explained what the limitations in our design tools are and how we can get the best out of it. It's really hard to compare a design tool like Adobe Photoshop and a web browser, so you should test your design as soon as possible on your browser. In the next part of the chapter, we discussed how we can enhance the...