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11:36
16 Aug
2013
Google is increasingly turning it's attention to mobile, and to mobile site design and performance. Most recently it has issued some feedback and 'advice' on page load times.
Instead if you use server-side responsiveness, as well as the RCSS you have implemented, then you can get the page sizes for mobile down to one tenth of what your site currently delivers (and have a better looking GUI, delivering made-for-mobile functionality for your site visitors).
Mobile users spend their lives on 3G (rarely!), Edge and GPRS: not Wi-fi and 4G
We've all experienced the patchiness of mobile networks, even (especially) in high density areas or in cities and places where we expect network coverage to be 'best'. Mostly it isn't.
The chart in the title image shows the problem for a given mobile site (it's fairly typical of the issue) and why site is (a) sluggish on a mobile device, and (b) only works on some devices:In terms of best practice approaches to mobilising your website:
And the way to achieve both 2. and 3. is to use RESS i.e. server-side responsiveness.
Otherwise, people on a train, browsing your site following sight of an ad in a magazine, will find it takes 5 minutes to load!!!