High Performance Mobile Web

Optimize the performance of your mobile websites and webapps to the extreme. With this hands-on book, veteran mobile and web developer Maximiliano Firtman demonstrates which aspects of your site or app slow down the user’s experience, and what you can do to achieve lightning-fast performance. There’s much at stake: if you want to boost your app’s conversion rate, then tackling performance issues is the best way to start.

Learn tools and techniques for working with responsive web design, images, the network layer, and many other ingredients—plus the metrics to check your progress. Ideal for web developers and web designers with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and HTTP experience, this is your guide to superior mobile web performance.

You’ll dive into:

• Emulators, simulators, and other tools for measuring performance
• Basic web performance concepts, including metrics, charts, and goals
• How to get real data from mobile browsers on your real networks
• APIs and specs for measuring, tracking and improving web performance
• Insights and tricks for optimizing the first view experience
• Ways to optimize post-loading experiences and future visits
• Responsive web design and its performance challenges
• Tips for extreme performance to achieve best conversion rates
• How to work with web views inside native apps

Table of Contents

Chapter 1, The Mobile Web World
Chapter 2, Where to Measure Performance
Chapter 3, Web Performance Basics
Chapter 4, Measurement Tools
Chapter 5, Performance APIs
Chapter 6, Optimizing for the First Visit
Chapter 7, Optimizing After First Load
Chapter 8, Optimizing Responsiveness and the Post‑Loading Experience
Chapter 9, Responsive Web Design
Chapter 10, Extreme Mobile Web Performance
Chapter 11, The Native Side of the Web
Chapter 12, Mobile Web Performance Checklist