We all remember that famous quote “if you need a stylus for your tablet you’ve failed”. Well “if you need 500,000 apps for your phone you’ve failed”. Seriously think about it. People cannot deal with 100 apps let alone 500,000. 99% of the apps are merely features not apps. For example how many features are […]
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Timing the Mobile Web Experience
Alois Reitbauer has a great post up at the Performance Calendar …. where he talks about how complex it is to measure the users experience from the browser. One quote is very interesting… “Creating a waterfall chart like the one below by just using information available in the browser simply is impossible.” (see the link […]
So you want increased Web Performance & Privacy – Then “Know Before You Go”
… To Send a Response What does that mean? Well in layman’s terms the Web is nothing more than 2 cans and a piece of string. One can (the device) sends a message (request) to the other can (the server). It then responds to the request. And that’s how the Internet works. So […]
Making the Mobile Web Go Faster
Here’s an interesting performance comparison. Bing vs. Google on Sprint’s network in Colorado. I’m going to make the assumption that both companies have brilliant engineers, unlimited budgets for servers, CDN’s etc. Basically anything and everything that can make their page get their faster. So why is Google so much slower than Bing on Mobile? Well […]
Adding Geo-Location effects Performance on Mobile
This is fascinating. I ran two Mobile performance tests on Google.com. The first one was with location turned off, the second one allowed Google to access my location. Check out the time gap (over a second and a half) and the extra bandwidth required (31,000 bytes of data). The rule of thumb is that each […]