Performance Implications of Mobile Design

This document discusses optimizing mobile application performance through testing. It begins by explaining that performance is a human perception, with delays of 100ms feeling instantaneous, 1s still allowing for an uninterrupted train of thought, and 10s being the limit to maintain focus. It then discusses benchmarking applications to understand current performance, identifying fixes, optimizing through things like image size and format, caching, and lazy loading. The overall message is that thorough testing across devices and networks is needed to optimize mobile applications for speed.

This document discusses optimizing mobile application performance through testing. It begins by explaining that fast performance is a human perception, with delays of 100ms feeling instantaneous, 1s still allowing for an uninterrupted train of thought, and 10s being the limit to keep focus. It then discusses benchmarking applications to identify issues, making optimizations, testing fixes, and launching optimized versions. Specific techniques covered include profiling network conditions, testing on low-end devices, setting speed goals, optimizing JSON responses, image sizes/formats/quality, and caching. The overall message is that thorough testing across devices and networks is needed to optimize mobile application speed for the best user experience.

This document discusses mobile application performance testing. It begins by explaining how fast is perceived by humans, with 100ms seen as instant, 1s as an acceptable delay, and 10s as the limit to maintain focus. It then discusses various performance studies showing user frustration and abandonment rates related to load speeds. The document goes on to describe benchmarking applications, identifying fixes, optimizing through various techniques, and retesting. Specific areas covered in more depth include optimizing images through size, quality, format, caching and lazy loading. Other topics include content delivery networks, animating GIFs, and network information.

Have fast, performant, and successful web pages is a great Challenge. There are many layers involved and all of them have to work together. In this talk I presented at FIBAlumni with collaboration of COEINF and the video recording is at http://media.fib.upc.edu/fibtv/streamingmedia/view/22/1400 (in Catalan). It shows how all parts are involved in the success of web pages from the server up to the human brain and perception. It introduces metrics and ways to effectively calculate and measure objectively the impact of the actions taken in the optimisation and also some ways to detect ways to optimise websites.

An introduction to Web Performance Optimization in 2016 - Talk delivered in Toronto, Canada, October 18th, 2016

This document provides tips for optimizing images for fast loading on mobile websites. It discusses how image size, quality, format, caching, and lazy loading can significantly impact performance. Specific techniques recommended include resizing images to appropriate screen sizes, using formats like WebP and SVG that compress well, lazy loading images below the fold, and adding responsive breakpoints to serve optimized images for different devices. Benchmarking tools are suggested for testing image performance in various scenarios. The overall message is that with the right optimizations, images can load quickly without sacrificing quality.

Site speed is a ranking factor in Google, and for good reason. Visitors have a short attention span, and will quickly navigate away from a slow website, especially on mobile. This presentation covers essential tools and techniques for improving your load times and PageSpeed score, such as caching, image optimization, and plugin performance.

The document discusses how Akamai's Intelligent Internet Platform addresses challenges posed by increasingly sophisticated websites and rising consumer expectations for faster load times and richer content. It does this through a global network of servers that optimize routing, cache content closer to users, compress data and prefetch resources to accelerate page loads. Case studies show how Akamai has helped customers like Best Buy and Urban Outfitters improve performance, scale to handle traffic spikes and reduce infrastructure costs.

A web performance optimisation case study presented by Seatwave at the London Web Performance Meetup, Jan 2011. The PDF is in Landscape so you might be better to download it and then shift-ctrl-+ to rotate it clockwise in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Performance is important for user experience. While some myths exist around performance, such as XML being much slower than JSON, tests show they are essentially identical. Easy techniques can improve performance, such as using content delivery networks and image compression. Emerging standards like HTTP 2.0, server-side push, and WebSockets allow pushing data to clients. Frameworks like MessagePack provide smaller binary serialization. Proper use of threading, reusing elements, preloading, and prioritizing content can also boost performance. The perception of speed matters - even 100ms delays impact user behavior.

This document provides an overview of techniques for developing high performance web applications. It discusses why front-end performance matters, and outlines best practices for optimizing page load times, using responsive interfaces, loading and executing JavaScript efficiently, and accessing data. The presentation recommends tools for monitoring and improving performance, such as Firebug, Page Speed, and YSlow.

HTML5 WebSockets offers secure, high-performance, bidirectional network communication over the Web and in the cloud, making applications more responsive while using less bandwidth: live dashboards, financial quotes and transactions, real-time auctions and betting, gaming, equipment monitoring . . . the list is endless. In this session, see how to extend the Java Message Service (JMS) API to Web devices over HTML5 WebSockets to enrich and accelerate your applications. Discover through concrete code examples and a live customer application how to develop highly interactive UIs showing real-time data from any middleware supporting JMS, such as Tibco EMS or Informatica UMQ. Demos include JavaFX and JavaScript running in a Web browser and on a mobile device.

Slides for my Adobe MAX 2011 presentation on Optimizing Sites for Mobile Devices. In this hands-on lab, I explore the concept of developing a mobile strategy that approaches mobile as an equal partner in the design process, and explores techniques to help site content deploy across devices and contexts.

The document discusses front-end web performance analysis. It introduces several popular tools for front-end performance analysis such as Fiddler, IBM Page Detailer, FireBug, YSlow, and AOL PageTest. It then discusses Yahoo's 14 rules and 20 new best practices for high performance web pages. Finally, it discusses techniques for extending front-end analysis tools and principles of optimization.

This document provides tips for optimizing images for fast loading on mobile devices. It recommends profiling network conditions and device capabilities to understand real-world performance. Images should be compressed and resized for different devices. Formats like JPEG, PNG, and WebP work best. Lazy loading and responsive images can further improve speed. Caching, gzip encoding, and a quality focus on differences imperceptible to humans can make large files much smaller without reducing quality.

Learn how Radware's FastView technology, embedded into the Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) provide result oriented web application acceleration

xPerformance is fundamentally, a UX concern. Sites that are slow to render or janky to interact with are a bad user experience. We strive to write performant code for our users, but users don’t directly interact with our code - it all happens through the medium of the browser. The browser is the middleman between us and our users; therefore to make our users happy, we first have to make the browser happy. But how exactly do we do that? In this talk, we’ll learn how browsers work under the hood: how they request, construct, and render a website. At each step along the way, we’ll cover what we can do as developers to make the browser’s job easier, and why those best practices work. You’ll leave with a solid understanding of how to write code that works *with* the browser, not against it, and ultimately improves your users’ experience.

The document discusses how Akamai's Dynamic Site Accelerator (DSA) can help websites address performance, scalability, security, and availability issues. DSA leverages Akamai's global edge network to speed page loading, optimize caching, improve TCP performance, and offload website infrastructure. It provides an example of how DSA helped Cathay Pacific boost online bookings and reduce infrastructure costs. In summary, DSA leverages Akamai's edge network to improve website performance, scalability, and availability while reducing infrastructure needs and costs.

Joseph Morrissey and Matt Ringel from Akamai Technologies go a level deeper into web browser internals to show how a browser turns HTML into pixels, and what you can do with your web pages to make them easier to digest by the browser. We include the top 5 things we've found that make web site rendering slower, and what you can do to fix them.

1) Mobile traffic to retail sites is growing rapidly, with 1 in 4 visits now coming from smartphones. 2) Mobile users expect fast load times and want the ability to purchase directly from their phones. 3) Akamai's solutions can optimize the mobile experience for retailers by speeding load times, offloading traffic, and prioritizing content delivery. 4) As retail moves increasingly omnichannel, with in-store and online shopping converging, Akamai aims to help retailers engage customers across all channels through fast, personalized experiences.

This document discusses using the Akamai Connector for Varnish to simplify operations between a Varnish cache and Akamai's edge caching network. It highlights common challenges with duplicating caching logic and managing lifecycle changes. The connector architecture allows caching policies to be defined in VCL and automatically propagated to Akamai. An example demo purges a file from both Varnish and Akamai caches. Attendees are encouraged to join the early access program to try the integration.

The document discusses Akamai IO, a new project by Akamai Technologies that will provide insights into Internet traffic patterns based on data from two trillion daily requests Akamai sees, representing 20-30% of global HTTP traffic. Initially, the observatory will provide browser statistics broken down by cellular and non-cellular networks, with plans to expand coverage of object types, page elements, trends, and APIs.

Dr. Tom Leighton delivered a keynote presentation titled “Transforming Experiences Across the Omnichannel." Dr. Leighton explains the challenges of providing frictionless experiences across all devices and channels. He also shares near term and long term strategies for helping to ensure rapid response times – regardless of whether a shopper is engaging on a smartphone or an iPad, using a mobile connection, or competing for Wi-Fi in the store. Learn more about Akamai's Mobile Solutions - Aqua Ion Mobile: http://www.akamai.com/html/solutions/aqua_ion_mobile.html

This document summarizes a workshop on web performance optimization. It covers topics like compression, image optimization, page structure, HTTPS/HTTP2, and resource hints. For compression, it discusses setting up gzip, brotli, and comparing performance. For images, it outlines creating optimized images in the right sizes/formats/qualities and delivering them efficiently through responsive images and lazy loading. The workshop provides strategies for web performance improvement through optimizing common assets like code, images and page structure.

The document discusses responsive web design and how Akamai solutions can help address common problems with RWD. It describes strategies for RWD like adaptive delivery and responsive client-side design. Common issues with RWD include over-downloading content and image-related problems. Akamai solutions like adaptive images, responsive images, Edge Server Includes, and responsive server-side design can help optimize content delivery for different devices and networks. These solutions can improve page load times and the user experience compared to traditional RWD approaches.

Being able to review and assess configurations is key in improving efficiency and performance for our websites. During this session, we will discuss and demonstrate how to review your Akamai configurations in order to move towards updated and efficient methods. In order to improve all aspects of websites, we will cover areas including images, protocols, DNS, caching, and more. Not only will we essentially teach you how to perform mini configuration assessments, but we will also walk through several basic steps using industry tools and Akamai solutions that can help address performance pitfalls within a website today. These tools will range anywhere from using WebPageTest, PageSpeed, to more Akamai focused areas such as Log Analysis, Portal Reports and other Akamai solutions.

Akamai was founded in 1998 by Dr. Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin based on research at MIT to develop algorithms for load balancing and content caching to make the Internet faster, more secure, and reliable. It now has over 2,500 employees, 4,000 customers, $1.12 billion in revenue, and a 63.2% market share providing cloud, media, mobile and security services to enterprises, commerce, high-tech, media and entertainment, and public sector customers worldwide. The top 100 global brands trust Akamai to remove the complexities of technology.

Slides from my Web Directions South 2014 Talk. Abstract: Responsive Web Design (RWD) is upon us, and it seems like every website has either gone responsive or planning to do so. And in this rush to implement – performance is left behind… Last November (2013), I ran a test identifying the responsive websites amongst the top 10,000 sites, and inspected their performance traits. The results were depressing, showing many sites have gone responsive, and hardly any tackled performance. In this talk, we’ll track the progress (or lack there of) we made as an industry. We’ll look at the results of a new test, tracking our progress in adopting RWD and – more importantly – in addressing its performance implications. We’ll share high level stats, highlight key trends, drill into representative examples, and come away with a better understanding of what we should be doing better, both on our own sites and as an industry

The document discusses how Akamai's responsive web design (RWD) and image optimization solutions can improve website performance for desktop and mobile users. It shows that Akamai's Ion Standard solution improved page load times by 92-99% and that Ion Premier improved load times by 125-235%. Pairing Ion Premier with additional image optimization and design tools improved load times even further by 272-400%.

The connected world around us is evolving at a breath taking pace. Some people refer to it as the Internet of Things, others call it The Internet of Everything or the “hyperconnected world.” Whatever you choose to call it, we are becoming a world in which billions of people, tens of billions of machines, and countless petabytes of information are all interlinked and in which instantaneous and intelligent access becomes the expectation. In this presentation, Akamai CEO and co-founder Dr. Leighton outlines four Grand Challenges created as a result of the massive quantities of video moving online, the rising movement of online transactions and media to mobile devices, an ever-increasing frequency and sophistication of security attacks and the rapid migration of enterprise applications to the cloud.

End users expect to be able to view media content anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Amazon CloudFront is a web service for content delivery used to distribute content to end users around the globe with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments. In this session, learn what a content delivery network (CDN) such as Amazon CloudFront is and how it works, the benefits it provides, common challenges and needs, performance, pricing, and examples of how customers are using CloudFront.

Third party components are a part of any modern site: JS libs, analytics, trackers, share buttons, ads. Many components, each adding its performance cost, cause render delays or can effectively take your site down. This isn’t your code nor your servers, so what can you do about it? This presentation will answer this question with strategies and tactics for keeping 3rd parties from taking you down. This talk was given at Velocity Santa Clara, 2014: The presentation from Velocity Santa Clara, 2014 (http://velocityconf.com/velocity2014/public/schedule/detail/35448).

In this world of myriad devices, having fast, reliable and secure mobile apps is of utmost importance for every business. Fast-paced development is the need of the hour and as businesses are building apps quicker, it is crucial to make sure that mobile apps are tested and reviewed at the same pace to ensure an enhanced end-user experience. In this session, you will learn to test or review whether the Akamai features are working correctly on your mobile apps. We will share troubleshooting tools and best practices to empower you to quickly identify and resolve Akamai-related issues on your mobile apps.

DIY Website Performance Authored by Pierre Lermant with contributions and delivered at Akamai Toronto Tech Day on May 6, 2015 by Desmond Tam.

Slide deck from Strangeloop president Joshua Bixby's presentation at the 2012 Content Delivery Summit. Many content owners are already using a content delivery network (CDN) to cache content closer to their visitors, but CDNs don't reduce the number of requests required to render each page, and they have no impact on browser efficiency. Front-end optimization (FEO) picks up where CDNs leave off, transforming the content itself so that it renders as quickly as possible in the browser. In this presentation, attendees will see real-world examples of how leading e-commerce sites have combined CDN and FEO forces to reach new levels of performance for content-rich pages. Get real numbers on how quickly content-rich sites loaded pre-acceleration, then with just a CDN, then with a combined CDN/FEO solution.

This document discusses Akamai Technologies and its evolution from academic research at MIT to a global cloud delivery platform. It outlines Akamai's role in managing complex modern web presences and addresses three grand challenges facing the internet - performance, media delivery, and security. For performance, it discusses ensuring fast delivery to any device. For media, it discusses enabling high-quality video delivery at massive scale. And for security, it discusses protecting from increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks. The document highlights how Akamai's global server network and technologies help customers meet these challenges.

The document discusses how the Akamai Intelligent Internet Platform uses a global network of servers located at the edge of the internet to deliver web content and applications. It helps websites improve performance by optimizing routing, caching content closer to users, compressing files, pre-fetching resources, and offloading processing from origin servers. Case studies show how Akamai solutions helped companies like Best Buy, Urban Outfitters, and Live Nation improve performance, manage traffic spikes, and increase sales.

Serverless means handing off server management to the cloud platforms – along with their security risks. With the “pros” ensuring our servers are patched, what’s left for application owners to protect? As it turns out, quite a lot. This talk discusses the aspects of security serverless doesn’t solve, the problems it could make worse, and the tools and practices you can use to keep yourself safe. Required audience experience Basic knowledge of how FaaS and Serverless works Objective of the talk As many companies explore the world of serverless, it’s important they understand the aspects of security this new world helps them with, and the ones they need to care more about. This talk will provide a framework to understand how to prioritise and approach security for Serverless apps.

Guy Podjarny breaks into a vulnerable serverless application and exploits multiple weaknesses, helping better understand some of the mistakes people make, their implications, and how to avoid them. Video available on: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/serverless-security-2017