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  Bobby 10:20 pm on May 23, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  Smartphone Browser localStorage is up to 5x Faster than Native Cache New Research | Mobify 

  As a web developer you know that creating engaging web UX means means quickly delivering content that captures your visitors attention.

  The storage API, including localStorage, was designed to help web developers provide more app-like behaviour for the web than cookies previously allowed.

  But it turns out you can also use localStorage to make your mobile website faster!

  How much faster? Well, you can load some critical path resources such as a JavaScript thats required for your UX up to 3 – 5x faster using localStorage than from the browsers native cache. Using millions of data points from Real User Monitoring RUM I had the following surprising results.

  

  via Smartphone Browser localStorage is up to 5x Faster than Native Cache New Research | Mobify.

   

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  Bobby 4:18 pm on December 3, 2012 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
  Tags: buffering, speed, video ( 7 )   

  Study: viewers have no patience for buffering, abandon videos after two seconds of waiting | The Verge 

  Study: viewers have no patience for buffering, abandon videos after two seconds of waiting | The Verge.

  I feel we’ll be seeing a lot more studies like this come out in the next few months.

  According to a paper published by professor Ramesh K. Sitarman of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, viewers begin to abandon a video after a two second delay, with six percent disappearing per second thereafter.