What I'm working on at Google: Making the mobile web fast

Post by newman314 » Wed, Jun 08, 2011, 7:52 AM UTC

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #9

nostromo wrote: post #4

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Google's mod_pagespeed ( http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/module.html ) is an example of something Google did that can help everyone on all platforms. He talks a bit about it in the article too: "At a high level we are planning to tackle problems in three broad areas: The mobile devices themselves; the services they connect to; and the networks that connect them. On the device side, we are looking at a wi…

Isn't he greatly understating the significance of mobile browser performance? Isn't it the #1 blocker right now? Mobile browsers parse javascript much slower than on the desktop. Even the iPad can't keep up with a lot of simplistic canvas games. Google needs a team dedicated to fixing this problem.