Building fast and responsive websites

This excerpt is Chapter 4 of the HTML5 Mobile Development Cookbook by Shi Chuan, out at Packt Publishing.

On mobile devices, bandwidth is not always as good as on a desktop computer. If you are on a slow 3G network, things can get loaded much slower than on a Wi-Fi hotspot. Even for Wi-Fi connections, many mobile browsers process slower than desktop computers. So when we create mobile sites, they have to be fast and responsive.

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