The Cost of Poor Web Performance

Re:The Cost of Poor Web Performance by maaaats on Thursday January 16, 2014 @08:13AM (#7069160)

Back in the days I used Opera Mobile for surfing on the phone, when there were no data-plans or 3G/4G as there is now. A compressed page with pictures were just a few kBs, and loaded fairly quick.

But now, since the mobile net is so fast, there's little optimization done for mobile other than layout. Loading the largest newspaper in my country's mobile version is a whopping 1.5MBs with all the pictures. 2.7MB in normal. I think this is sad.

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Re:The Cost of Poor Web Performance by aestra on Thursday January 16, 2014 @09:45AM (#7069613)

I was under the impression part of that is because of how Opera Mobile worked, they have some kinda "Turbo" mode that compressed websites and reduced downloading times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mobile

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Re:The Cost of Poor Web Performance by dredmorbius on Thursday January 16, 2014 @11:08AM (#7070130)

Including caching of optimized content.

Which played hell with the localization logic for many sites.

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Re:The Cost of Poor Web Performance by mattmanser on Thursday January 16, 2014 @08:24AM (#7069211)

I think a lot of this has to do with the introduction of retina displays, images seem to take up a lot.

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Re:The Cost of Poor Web Performance by hnha on Thursday January 16, 2014 @09:27AM (#7069533)

I really wish for a browser that let's me nicely disable js, cookies, images etc per domain easily on Android.

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