Abstract
The quality of mobile web experience remains poor, partially as a result of complex websites and design choices that worsen performance, particularly for users on suboptimal networks or with low-end devices. Prior proposed solutions have seen limited adoption due to the demand they place on developers and content providers, and the performing infrastructure needed to support them. We argue that Document and Permissions Policies - ongoing efforts to enforce good practices on web design - may offer the basis for a readily-available and easily-adoptable solution, as they encode key best practices for web development. In this paper, as a first step, we evaluate the potential performance cost of violating these well understood best practices and how common such violations are in today's web. Our analysis shows, for example, that controlling for unsized-media policy, something applicable to 70% of the top Alexa websites, can indeed significantly reduce Cumulative Layout Shift, a core metric for evaluating the performance of the web.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | HotMobile 2022 - Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
Pages | 95-101 |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450392181 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 9 2022 |
Event | 23rd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, HotMobile 2022 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Mar 9 2022 → Mar 10 2022 |
Publication series
Name | HotMobile 2022 - Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications |
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Conference
Conference | 23rd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, HotMobile 2022 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Virtual, Online |
Period | 3/9/22 → 3/10/22 |
Funding
The work of Byungjin Jun is supported by 2021 Google PhD Fellowship.
Keywords
- document policy
- mobile network
- performance measurement
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Computer Science Applications
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Software