Mobile Web
Articles on mobile web performance, Progressive Web Apps, responsive design, and browser optimization.
Mobile Web engineering articles 31–41 of 41
Embedding Flutter Applications in Websites Using DartPad
Jose Alba from Google's Material team shows how to turn your Flutter apps into embeddable web demos. No hosting required—just GitHub and DartPad.
Native lazy loading has arrived!
Andy Potts from BBC cut page load times in half with a single HTML attribute. No JavaScript libraries, no complex code—just one word added to image tags.
Mobile Web Performance (Caviar)
Caviar's mobile site was bleeding conversions. Their homepage took nearly 10 seconds to load, and 53% of users were bouncing before seeing a single restaurant.
How We Made Carousell's Mobile Web Experience 3x Faster
Stacey Tay from Carousell reveals how her team achieved a 3x speed improvement on mobile web—and turned it into a 63% traffic surge. The secret? A ruthless performance budget and smart PWA architecture.
Using Docker to build a testing infrastructure for web UI and mobile
LINE Engineering ditched expensive cloud testing services and built their own Docker-based infrastructure. The result? Flexible, cost-effective testing for both web and mobile.
Optimizing Frame Performance for Mobile Devices
Charles Siebert, Branden Berlin, and Yipeng Song from Oregon State University crashed mobile browsers repeatedly while stress-testing A-Frame VR scenes. What they learned could save your next WebVR project from...
Unlocking Test Performance: Migrating from Mocha to Jest
Gary Borton from Airbnb reveals how switching test frameworks slashed their CI build time by 62%. What started as a 12+ minute ordeal became a 4.5 minute sprint—and nearly eliminated test flakiness.
LinkedIn Lite: A Lightweight Mobile Web Experience
LinkedIn shipped a 75KB mobile experience that loaded in under 6 seconds on 100 Kbps connections. Six engineers built it in four months.
Mobile A/B Testing at Quora
Tommy MacWilliam from Quora reveals how they A/B test mobile UX without waiting weeks for App Store approval. The secret? A hybrid architecture that lets them iterate at web speed.
Animating the Mobile Web
Zain M., Engineering Intern at Yelp, turned a choppy mobile web animation into a buttery-smooth 60fps experience. The secret? Ditching the obvious CSS properties and rethinking how browsers handle rendering.
Improving Mobile Web Performance and Standards
Chris Heilmann from Mozilla called on developers to help shape the future of mobile web standards back in 2012. The questions they asked then still echo in today's cross-platform debates.