Front-end Speed Test: Mobile Browsers

So you’ve downloaded YSlow and got your pages to load in less than half a second. Now the next step is to see how it works on a mobile phone browser (Safari Mobile excluded I would imagine) to see if you have too many images.

My Blackberry (which I love to death despite its behind-the-times functionality) usually loads average web pages at a brisk 2 minutes or so. And thats over Wi-Fi! Today I was browsing some of my websites and those that were light on images clocked in at far less than 60 seconds. Obviously most mobile browsers are antiquated to say the least, and images are necessary for web design but sometimes typography still trumphs imagery.

Give it a try and see how you match up.