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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

Content Delivery Network


The user's geographic location and the distance on which your web server has a direct impact on response time is limited. So, dividing your website's content across multiple geographic locations will enhance page loading time. A Content Delivery Network (CDN) hosts files in different locations so that the person who visits your website can receive the nearest copy faster.

Most CDNs are used to host statistic content such as JavaScripts, CSS, images, videos, and fonts. Other than these, there are many benefits that we can get if we use a CDN network:

  • Different domains: For a single domain, there is a limit for the concurrent connection made by browsers. Most of the time, it's between 4-8 and other connections have to wait until they are completed. However, CDN files are hosted on a different domain, so the browser permits to download CDN hosted files exceeding the normal limit.

  • Files can be pre-cached: There is a high probability that someone may visit the website...