This is fascinating. I ran two Mobile performance tests on Google.com. The first one was with location turned off, the second one allowed Google to access my location. Check out the time gap (over a second and a half) and the extra bandwidth required (31,000 bytes of data). The rule of thumb is that each […]
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GoMo vs.. 3PMobile Performance Measurement Service – Head to Head Performance Test
Using GoMo (the new Mobile measurement tester from Google) I compared how long it took to download www.google.com vs. www.3pmobile.com First the results for www.google.com – 0.241 seconds to load the Web page Now the results for www.3pmobile.com – 1.294 seconds to load the Web page Now for a reality check. What we need […]
Privacy on the Internet is NOT “binary”
I’m going to start this blog post by quoting the definition of privacy from Wikipedia. I’ve highlighted 4 key words. Privacy (from Latin: privatus “separated from the rest, deprived of something, esp. office, participation in the government”, from privo “to deprive”) is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information […]
The Real Mobile Performance Problem
This morning I ran a speed test using my iPhone tethered to my MacBook Air (via Bluetooth). I was not so much interested in the actual download speed (which I found to be pretty impressive using a 2 1/2 year old iPhone), but more in the latency numbers. Here are the results – the top […]
Sears shows what a really fast Mobile site looks like (Yes it loads faster than Google’s Mobile home page)
First the numbers (this test was done on Sprints network from just South of Denver) Google loads in 3.922 seconds – 14 elements and 307k Sears loads in 2.991 seconds – 17 elements and 154k And here’s what their page looks like – 10 out of 10 for formatting. Bottom line – […]