Category Archives: mobile

“Speed Index” introduced as new performance metric

The Speed Index metric was added to WebPagetest in April, 2012 and measures how quickly the page contents are visually populated (where lower numbers are better).  It is particularly useful for comparing experiences of pages against each other (before/after optimizing, … Continue reading

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Mobile Commerce Strategy & Tactics

Browse more data visualizations.  

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M vs E commerce

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The growing epidemic of page bloat

Average page size is now over 1MB, according to the HTTP Archive. At current growth rates, the average page could hit 2MB by 2015 –VIA gigaom

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Making the Case for HTML5

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8 Limitations When Designing For Mobile

1) No hover state 2) Slow and error-prone typing 3) Less context 4) Inaccurate clicks 5) Poor connectivity 6) Slow hardware 7) Usage situation 8) No right-click —http://baymard.com/blog/mobile-design-limitations

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Google Voice Search vs. Siri

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Mobile Site vs Mobile App

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The average web page is now 1 MB

Joshua Bixby, CEO of Strangeloopnetworks, has an interesting article on page sizes/load time at gigaom. Key Highlights: According to the HTTP Archive, which gathers stats on the top million sites in the world (as ranked by Alexa), the average web page … Continue reading

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Separate the ways that people use apps

Chris Dixon has a helpful post on categorizing your mobile app: Time wasters – Apps that can be used for short bursts when you are waiting in line Time wasters tend to be faddish Core utilities –  core utilities are … Continue reading

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