Report: Mobile Web Site Performance Getting Worse
Posted: May 13, 2009
By: readwriteweb.com
In the evolving Web, where mobile web growth is exploding and therefore mobile experience matters as much as the desktop one, it is becoming increasingly important for websites to ensure that their mobile site performs well. According to a new mobile web performance benchmark produced by Gomez (a web application performance management firm) and dotMobi (the company behind the .mobi Internet domain), there is a widening performance gap between the traditional fixed web and the mobile web. According to Gomez data, traditional fixed web sites loaded an average of 3% faster in April than in March, while mobile web sites were 9% slower. We check out Gomez’s data below.
The Mobile Web Experience Benchmarks released by Gomez and dotMobi compare and rank the mobile Web experiences provided by the top businesses in a variety of industries. We look at three of them below: search, media and banking. Gomez measured five things to assess the performance of mobile Web sites in those industries: readiness, discoverability, speed, success and consistency. The charts from Gomez are below, along with added commentary by ReadWriteWeb……..[read entire article]
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