Jakob Nielson hits it on the head with this Click Z interview, Jakob Nielsen on Usability for Mobile Sites and Apps conducted by Melinda Krueger. Performance Matters. It is not about short, it is about “ultra short”. Mobile use is secondary to the main activity of the user (shopping, dining, changing a tire, watching TV…). […]
Monthly Archives:: August 2011
Privacy: Do You Know Where your USB Ports Have Been Lately?
You can’t control everything, and let’s face it, data privacy policy management is not the most glamorous part of your day. In fact, if you are not in a regulated industry, there is a pretty good chance you are not even monitoring where your data goes after an employee accesses it, let alone accesses it […]
The Complete Solution to making the Web go Faster.
Yesterday I wrote a blog about why web optimization is NOT the complete solution to making the Web go faster. I promised that in my next post I would talk about the complete solution to making the Web go faster. So here goes. Let’s start with a couple of assumptions (I know, always dangerous but […]
Why Web optimization is NOT the complete solution to making the Web go faster!
Everyday now we hear about someone offering to “speed” up the Web. They tout all manner of “measurement tools”. They say “if you measure it, you can manage it”. And if you can manage it then you can make things go faster. Nonsense! Let’s take this hypothetical case. You’ve called in all the worlds foremost […]
Measuring Mobile Web Performance: 101
Short version: From the end users perspective on a real device, connected to a Carrier network, anywhere in the world. Long version: Well here things get a little more complicated. There are always two different ways to measure User-Agent (the device) performance, whether it’s on the desktop or Over the Air (OTA)/On the device. This […]