Optimizing Mobile Web Sites with Chris Love
How do you make a mobile web site go fast? The same way you make any web site go fast! Carl and Richard talk to Chris Love about his strategies for making fast web pages. The conversation starts out discussing how mobile apps are even more performance sensitive than regular web pages, because mobile devices typically have less bandwidth and more limited processing power for rendering. Chris points to one of his favorite tools - WebPageTest, as a great starting point for knowing where to look for performance gains on web pages. This leads to discussion on image compression, CDNs, time-to-live settings and more!
Guests:
Chris Love
Chris Love is a front-end developer for people and companies who are lost in the sea of modern web and user experience standards. He has a quarter century of web development experience, and has built a wide variety of web sites and applications in those years. In recent years, he immersed himself in responsive web design, single-page web applications and web performance optimization.
He applies these interests to run a small web consulting company, Love2Dev, that focuses on user-first web applications that operate on all device classes and usage contexts. Love2Dev offers web development and analysis to help companies engage end users and operate more efficiently.
Chris authored 3 web development books including, High Performance Single Page Web Applications, http://amzn.to/1b0twcm. He is a Microsoft MVP, ASP Insider and Edge User Agent. Chris regularly speaks at user groups, code camps and developer conferences. He blogs at http://love2dev.com
Links:
- Internet of Sh!t Twitter https://twitter.com/internetofshit
- Smart Bottle https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/582920317/hidrateme-smart-water-bottle
- Steve Souders http://stevesouders.com/
- WebPageTest http://www.webpagetest.org/
- PerfBudget on Grunt https://github.com/tkadlec/grunt-perfbudget
- kraken.io https://kraken.io/
- HTTP Archive Trends http://httparchive.org/trends.php
- What Does my Site Cost http://whatdoesmysitecost.com/