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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

Built for performance


Now we all know why performance optimization is important for a mobile application or website. However, to implement and develop websites for performance, it takes time and money. If you fail to get budget approval from stakeholders for a project before it begins, you will have a really hard time. However, convincing them to do so is not that easy because usually, no one wants to invest if there is no valuable return to them.

It's easy to get excited about reducing metrics like load time and page weight, but they're probably not what matters to the people you need to get support from. Most of the time, stakeholders want to hear about what optimization will do for the things they care about. Some people will want to observe how it affects the bottom line. Others may be concerned more about what it means for page views and bounce rates. Learn what others care about and focus on prioritizing how performance improves those factors. You'll have a lot more success convincing...