[I-mobile-u] page load times

[Dave Olsen]

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:

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> Has anyone calculated their average load times for their mobile web sites?
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> We’re seeing user page load times of about 3 seconds and I’d like to have some numbers to compare that against.
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> Thanks,
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> Roger
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