Research & Analysis
Mobile web performance on news websites too slow for many
May 24, 2017, by Martin Clancy
We’ve written extensively on mobiForge on how web performance on mobile devices really makes a huge difference to your visitors and your business. We’ve also highlighted that the fast metropolitan WiFi speeds enjoyed in the offices of many content creators simply aren’t reflected in the real world where the vagaries of the network and the... Read More
13 Statistics Showing The Importance of Mobile Web Performance
April 6, 2017, by Pawel Piejko
With the increasing popularity of AMP, web performance on mobile has become a mainstream issue discussed even by non-tech media. If you’re looking to better understand the problem, here is a ready-made list of 13 recent statistics related to web performance on mobile. As mobiForge’s Ronan Cremin recently put it, today the world of mobile... Read More
Mobile web: back to the future
March 29, 2017, by ronan
In the early days of the mobile web, way back in the late late nineties and early noughties, there was only one technique available to publish web pages to mobile devices: bespoke mobile content. There was simply no way that desktop-focused content could be made to work unaltered on the mobile devices of the time, which... Read More
Adaptive web design dominates in the web’s top brands
March 23, 2017, by ronan
Five years ago we ran an analysis of how the web’s top brands delivered web content to mobile. We found that 82% of the Alexa 100 used Adaptive Web Design (AWD, or server-side adaptation) in their websites to cater to different device classes. Since we ran this analysis RWD has become decidedly mainstream, an indispensable... Read More
Year in review: How the share of mobile web traffic changed in 2016
December 28, 2016, by Pawel Piejko
Having a detailed understanding of today’s mobile landscape is crucial when making business decisions related to your online presence. Over 2016, we’ve followed DeviceAtlas’ quarterly reporting on the latest trends in the mobile device usage which are based on real life web traffic to hundreds of thousands of websites. These reports are focused on specific... Read More
