On 5/11/11 11:39 AM, George Bonser wrote: > It depends. There are other things to take into account. If you > increase the time it takes a mobile device to complete a transaction by > only a couple of seconds, if you multiply those couple of seconds by > all of the users in a large metro area, you end up with devices > increased use of network resources (and increased battery drain on the > devices themselves). Anything that can be done to speed transactions up > and get those transmitters shut off as quickly as possible is a win. If > you don't have a lot of mobile clients hitting your site, then maybe > that isn't a problem. Every network has their own set of resources and > their own set of challenges and all of that has to fit within the > network architecture they have deployed and their business model.
So in our environment reducing the load time on an application by a couple seconds nets out to several human lifetimes a month, so people count seconds and fractions of seconds like they're precious. > Basically, there is no "magic bullet". indeed, it has to be applied systemically. > >
