When I speak and write about web and app performance, I constantly talk about reducing the size of files to speed up the delivery of the content. I'd like to present another piece of the problem: the size of mobile apps. If you're like me - you're constantly fighting the "your device is nearly full" … Continue reading Size Does Matter: LEGO’s 300MB Android App
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Background videos, and videos that autoplay on websites are becoming more and more popular (and perhaps will soon be the new normal). It is also common to only display the video on larger screens, and to hide the video on small screens. An Anti-pattern emerges However, in my experience of looking at hundreds of websites … Continue reading Hiding Videos on the Mobile Web
Video content on the the web is increasing - with such an immersive medium - it is pretty much a . no brainer. However, a few months ago, I looked into how the web is using video on the web, and found that slow video startup times and stalls are much more common than we … Continue reading Video Playback Metrics: New Synthetic Testing Tool StreamOrNot
You have probably seen it while browsing your favourite social media feed - where a video plays silently, but there are captions running across the bottom, indicating that something interesting is happening. Personally, I am more likely to stop and watch a video in my social feeds if there are captions (while the video plays silently). … Continue reading Video Accessibility: Adding Captions
Video on the web is now reaching far beyond just linking to YouTube. Thousands of pages are embedding video as an integral part of the website experience: both increasing the interest and engagement of their site to users, but also the size and time to load of the webpage. This is a delicate balance that … Continue reading State of the Web: Video Playback Metrics
