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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

Unnecessary contents


Mobile devices have had an exquisite journey so far, but there are still some issues with them, because of their physical limitations. There are different sizes of smartphones and tablets available in the market and to serve those devices, the developer should include flexibility into his design. However, many mobile users still find it a bit difficult to read mobile content because many developers try to add as much information on the mobile screen and most of the time they try to replicate the desktop screen in the mobile.

However, doing this does not only create performance issues for the mobile devices but it will also create some issues in user experience as well. So, when building a mobile website, developers should ask the following questions to themselves:

  • What are my users going to do with my mobile website or application?

  • What are the commonly used cases for my mobile application or website?

  • What is the most important information that I should provide for my user...