[I-mobile-u] page load times

[David Ormsbee]

For what it's worth, Harvard's home screen runs at 141K, compared to UCF's
222K. A little of that difference is the CSS (both are using minify, but it
looks like there might be some problem where gzip isn't working correctly on
your server?), but the majority of the difference is jQuery. This is pure
speculation, but maybe you should see if you can drop the use of SSL on that
jQuery include? It might be preventing some browsers from caching the JS
correctly.

I don't have access to some of the more detailed stats for Harvard right
now, but I'll try to look into them when I get back into this office this
week. Are there any particularly problematic pages?

Take care.

Dave


On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Dave Olsen <dmolsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Roger-
>
> Considering the factors that can go into *timing* a page load it might be
> better to use page weight and total number of assets to load as a better
> baseline for comparing sites from a page load perspective. I have a blog
> post that looked at page weight across a number of higher ed mobile sites
> and it can be found at http://www.dmolsen.com/mobile-in-higher-ed/?p=180.
>
> For what it's worth WVU Mobile Web is very hefty at 330k. I believe it was
> one of the heavier mobile sites I reviewed. The heaviest though was 1.98MBs.
> I use minify (I think that's the name) to combine and compress JavaScript
> and CSS assets. I also compress files served from our server. Most of the
> heft comes from jQuery & jQTouch. In my latest mobile project I've been
> playing with zepto.js as a lightweight replacement for jQuery and I've
> rolled my own jQTouch replacement.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 25, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Roger Wolf <Roger.Wolf at ucf.edu> wrote:
>
>  Good morning,
>
>
>
> Has anyone calculated their average load times for their mobile web sites?
>
> We’re seeing user page load times of about 3 seconds and I’d like to have
> some numbers to compare that against.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Roger
>
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