Believe it or not there’s only two ways to measure Mobile Performance. And the choices are: The Wire Only – Look at what is ‘on the wire’ and then start scratching your head about why it doesn’t seem to match what you can even see with your own eyes watching the page get displayed. What is WebKit […]
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Panopticlick – How unique – and Trackable – is your browser?
Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies. Panopticlick tests your browser to see how unique it is based on the information it will share with sites it visits. So I ran the test on the following browsers… […]
Real time Automated Mobile Web Performance Testing
Where? LAX along the taxiway to the terminal. How? 9 lines of code! Knowing that your page loaded quickly — “Priceless” Here’s the 9 lines… <script>function do_google_loop_test(){ var urls = “”; // The list of URLS to AUTOTEST urls += “http://www.google.comn”; urls += “loop delay 30n”; js5o9.autotest( urls );}</script>
The Unpredictability of Mobile Web Performance
I’ve been running some Mobile performance tests from different locations and was surprised by how much they differ. Now obviously the tests below are not “exhaustive”, but it does illustrate how different locations affect Mobile Performance. 4 tests were done on the East coast, the remainder in Denver, CO. What’s amazing is the byte count […]
Mobile Web Performance Testing Coverage
3PMobile Anywhere (and we mean Anywhere) you can get a signal, either Wi-Fi or Cellular Blaze.io – 3 places, NO Cellular, Wi-Fi only