Don't touch the mobile parts

Dont touch the mobile partsFrancesco Fullone <ff@ideato.it>Twitter @fullo

Who am IFrancesco Fullone aka Fullo- PHP developer since 1999- President- and Open Source Evangelist- CEO @- founder @- Nerd and geek

In the previous* WPO episodes* “dont touch the slow parts ” [ http://ow.ly/5ihyb ] and “extended slow parts” [ http://ow.ly/5ihLT ]

Kate and Jack discovered that the 80% of loading time is on the browser

In the same time Locke understood thatresource loading order matters

Sayid tried to cut the bandwidth usagedecreasing files number and size...

… helped by Hurley whom reduces downloads forcingheaders to enable browser cache

at the same time, the “Others” studied the new possibilities offered by the HTML5

They never believe that mobile WPO is an even moremysterious and frightening journey...

...and that 97% of performance issues happen at frontend* * from webperformancetoday.com [ http://ow.ly/5hd35 ]

The Browser Chapter

On a smartphone a web pageis rendered from 40% to 80% slower than on a desktop.

A lot of different browsers Pre-installed webkit (iOS, Android, Blackberry, webOS, Symbian …) Pre-installed non-webkit(Bada, old Blackberry, Internet Explorer, DoCoMo …) User installable (Opera Mobile/Mini, Firefox, Skyfire ...)

Same engine doesnt mean same behaviours

We have to talk aboutmobile browser families: Smartphone Mid-End Low-End

Mid-End to Low-End browsers families lost (randomly): HTML5 support CSS3 support Caching quota Ajax

Still...

Symbians Anna WebKit browser* has No Application Cache No Geolocalization API No HTML5 Audio/Video tags Very limited CSS3 support * Released on April 2011 for X7 and E6 Nokia Smartphones

CSS Expressions and iFrames dont work on most mobile browsers

Different country* means different browser * From icrossing.co.uk [ http://ow.ly/5hanY ]

Caching, now, is not a difficult task * browserscope.org helps us [ http://ow.ly/5h8Db ]

New iOS* and Android browsers have 4Mb file cache (uncompressed) 4Mb total cache (uncompressed) 1Mb limit for file execution (js/css) * but cache is invalidated at the reboot [ http://ow.ly/5h8G4 ]

But...

Old iOS 3.x browser* had 25.6Kb file cache1Mb total cache (uncompressed) * and a lot of other low-end browsers

The Network Chapter

3G Networks are slow, with higher latency and limited* * comet doesnt works and 3G operator applies some limits.

HTTP Headers are different* [...] user-agent: LG-CU920/V1.0p Obigo/Q05A Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 via: 1.1 alpmagr1fe02WAP2-mbl x-up-devcap-accept-language: en,fr,es x-up-devcap-charset: US-ASCII,ISO-8859-1,UTF-8,UTF-16,ISO-8859-15,ISO-10646-UCS-2 x-up-devcap-iscolor: 1 x-up-devcap-numsoftkeys: 3 x-up-devcap-screendepth: 16 x-up-devcap-screenpixels: 240,400 x-up-devcap-smartdialing: 1 x-up-subno: ppu_1077a8d8fc1_vmag.mycingular.net x-wap-profile: http://gsm.lge.com/html/gsm/LG-CU920.xml [...] * 30% more than desktop, ETag doesnt works

Beware of the content proxies*!* used by some browsers like Opera mini. Ajax doesnt work properly

The Mobile WPO Chapter

As for desktop browsers a reduction of the requests is necessary,but mobile strategies are somewhat differents

When possible embed resources inthe page: CSS, JavaScript* and images with data URI * then save them after document.onload in local cache

Use Application Storage to staticallysave most used resources and user infos* in localStorage * as the geolocation infos and prefs

Save JavaScript function withApplication Storage*, then fire them to a tag and eval when needed * as Google and Bing do [ http://ow.ly/5h8Ab ]

Load resources as late as possible* and store them to be never loaded again* use ajax and infinite scrolling pattern [ http://ow.ly/5h9A6 ] to load only visible data, but remember to free memory

Use CSS to draw interface object*-webkit-border-image, CSS sprites, -webkit-border- radius, -webkit-gradient, ... * but remember that the browsers compatibility changes

Optimize images* and defer themwhen possible. Use SVG for charts.* animated GIF doesnt work on Android and WebOS, SVG is not enabled on Android. When possible strip EXIF tags.

GZip, Minify and Merge CSS and JavaScript* * as usual ;)

When possible avoid JavaScript frameworks*and use specific ones (ie. zepto.js) * some mobile browser can take up to 8s to parse jQuery

Detect device, reduce image details as needed * use window.devicePixelRatio on WebKit

HTML coding still matter

Use different (KiSS*) html than in the desktop browser * reduce elements. You are still on a 3/4 device, isnt it?

Reduce DOM elements, CSS classes and apply good programming patterns

Add specificic html meta tags* for mobile browsers* viewport, media=handheld, MobileOptimized, HandheldFriendly * add the right MIME for each device and use viewport meta tag

Test your codehttp://mobile.httparchive.org http://blaze.io/mobile http://jdrop.orghttp://www.mobilexweb.com

Your new best friend* * buy it on Amazon http://ow.ly/5sm6C

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