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 […]
Posts Categorized: Quality of Experience
GoMo vs.. 3PMobile Performance Measurement Service – Head to Head Performance Test
Using GoMo (the new Mobile measurement tester from Google) I compared how long it took to download www.google.com vs. www.3pmobile.com First the results for www.google.com – 0.241 seconds to load the Web page Now the results for www.3pmobile.com – 1.294 seconds to load the Web page Now for a reality check. What we need […]
Sears shows what a really fast Mobile site looks like (Yes it loads faster than Google’s Mobile home page)
First the numbers (this test was done on Sprints network from just South of Denver) Google loads in 3.922 seconds – 14 elements and 307k Sears loads in 2.991 seconds – 17 elements and 154k And here’s what their page looks like – 10 out of 10 for formatting. Bottom line – […]
End User Experience Monitoring Myths
Wow! Couldn’t stop shaking my head in agreement while reading through Donna Parent’s recent blog about The Top 10 Myths About End User Experience Monitoring from Tuesday’s SandHill.com opinion section. Right on the money. And I’ll argue that when you extend her analysis beyond apps to the Web and beyond the desktop to mobile, getting […]
3PMobile – The third “P” is for Personalization
The third post in the series (posts 1 & 2) talks about Personalization. This is perhaps the most powerful of the three “P’s. So let’s get straight to it… what if the website that you load in your browser really recognized you? Would it be possible for something to change in real-time so that the […]