Chapter 1. Pillars of Mobile Web Performance Optimization

If you are into mobile web or application development, it's essential to learn about the basics of mobile and how it has evolved over the last few decades. By learning about these topics, you will gain basic knowledge about mobiles, which will help you to understand the concepts that we are going to discuss in later chapters. Also, in the context of mobile web optimization, you can't ever forget the three main constraints that mobile devices have, and you are going to learn about these three constraints later.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

• Brief history of mobile development
• Three main pillars
• Available browsers
• Mobile OS