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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

Use of HTML5 and CSS3


Performance and user experience can make or break your mobile app or website, so in today's consumer market it is important to focus on both. Nowadays in a mobile web environment, many developers struggle with choppy transitions, endless spinning, and periodic delays in tap and touch events. Developers are trying very hard to get closer to native behaviors, but to do that they have to use many hacks, resets, and third-party frameworks.

However, using HTML5 and CSS3 features, they can overcome this issue to some extent, and I would like to discuss some of these methods with you.

Hardware acceleration and the Graphics Processing Unit

The Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) is a specialized unit that was built to accelerate an image's output to a display. Generally, the GPU is very efficient and is more effective than the general-purpose CPU, and it can process algorithms efficiently. Most modern mobile devices now have advanced chipsets, and GPUs are an essential part of this...