High Performance Mobile Web: Best Practices for Optimizing Mobile Web Apps - Softcover

Firtman, Maximiliano

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1491912553 ISBN 13: 9781491912553

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2016

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

Max Firtman is a mobile and web developer, trainer, speaker and writer. He is Adobe Community Champion and founder of ITMaster Professional Training. He wrote many books,including "Programming the Mobile Web" and "jQuery Mobile: Up and Running" published by O'Reilly Media. He has a blog about mobile web development at www.mobilexweb.com and he maintains the website www.mobilehtml5.org. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, including QCon, OSCON, Breaking Development, Velocity Conference, Fluent, Google Developer Day, Nokia Developer Days, Campus Party Europe and many other events around the world. He has received different recognitions, including Nokia Developer Champion yearly since 2006; Adobe Community Champion in 2011, and a Google recognition for being one of the most innovative mobile developers.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1491912553
• ISBN 13: 9781491912553
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 326