The future of the mobile web is small webpages
Nat Torkington posted about this presentation by Cloudfour on their research of the mobile web – Going fast on the Mobile Web. It contains some fantastic insights of how iPhone is changing the way that people are using the mobile web.
It also outlines their research into how mobile browsers deal with compression and caching. And details 8 tips on how to deliver content on the mobile web.
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And tips for the iPhone.
When you partner that with Steve Sounders research on iPhone caching.
The iPhone cache experiment suggests an additional performance rule specific for developing web sites for the iPhone:
Reduce the size of each component to 25 Kbytes or less for optimal caching behavior.
Given that the wireless network speed on iPhone is limited and the browser cache is cleared across power cycle, it is even more important to make fewer HTTP requests to achieve good performance than in the desktop world…
Also, the maximum cache limit of all components is 475 – 500 KB. Minify all the JavaScript, CSS and HTML.
The future of the mobile internet is small webpages.
Finally, here is the slide deck, its well worth a read.
