Mobile Summer Games close with dominant performance
The final week of competition in the Keynote Mobile Retail International Summer Games is over, the results are in, and we’ve seen a bit of a surprise finish. The games featured top retailers around...
View ArticleIs your mobile site up to speed for back to school shoppers?
It’s back to school time, is your site ready to handle the traffic? Over the past year we've seen quite a few retailers jump on the mobile bandwagon recognizing that mobile shopping is now mainstream....
View ArticleLivingSocial: the challenge of keeping up with customers on the go
Recent web traffic analysis shows that many Social Retailers are getting an enormous amount of traffic from mobile devices. In the case of LivingSocial, they’re getting more traffic from mobile than...
View ArticleCan you rely on your mobile site?
We often talk about speed and optimization, but site reliability is just as important to get your customers to repeatedly visit to your mobile site and build brand loyalty. According to the Keynote...
View ArticleFacebook punts on HTML5, what does that mean for you?
Mark Zuckerberg recently mentioned that "betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native" was a mistake made by Facebook.What does that mean for HTML5? In a nutshell nothing. Even though Zuckerberg...
View ArticleIts that time of year again - getting ready for the holidays!
The holiday shopping season is just a month away. At this point, you and other online retailers are deep into stress testing and trouble-shooting potential issues that can affect your e-commerce...
View ArticleCan the right mobile optimization trick be a treat for customers?
After a night of trick or treating on Halloween, all children will agree; there's always that one piece of candy in their bag that nobody wants. The treat may have been given with good intention but...
View ArticleGot Latency?
Earlier this week, I had the privilege of attending the San Francisco/Silicon Valley Web Performance Meetup for a talk on mobile web performance by Estelle Weyl. The talk was fabulous, with deep...
View ArticleGreat Mobile Performance Innovations for 2013
Web Performance is something many of us deal with daily as we try to make our web sites work faster for our users. There is no need to review why "faster is better", this is an axiom that we all know...
View ArticleAccurate Mobile Device Emulation Moves Towards a More Standards-based Approach
Clearly a big focus these days is understanding how to deliver the optimum performance of a mobile website and how customers are truly experiencing it over a wide range of smartphones and networks. The...
View ArticleResults from the DeviceAnywhere Test Center Customer Survey
A few months ago Keynote sent out a survey to our DeviceAnywhere customers and we wanted to share some of the results. The survey first asked a few demographic questions “What is your role in your...
View ArticleCross-platform App Development Frameworks: An Aspirin for Developer Headaches
One of the biggest challenges facing enterprise mobile app developers today is designing and developing apps across multiple platforms. In 2011-12, having a mobile strategy was imperative as the...
View ArticleThe Right Tool for the Job – Building an Automation Testing Matrix
For Desktop-based testing it’s a no-brainer: Use object-based scripting to maximize reuse across platforms/browsers.In today’s mobile world it really isn’t that simple. There are many different...
View ArticleMozilla and it's Plans for the Mobile Web
In a recent article written by Stephanie Blanchard, she discussed Mozillas plans for it's web-centric approach to supporting mobile. In the article she writes "Back when Microsoft’s Internet Explorer...
View ArticleEmulated and Real Device Mobile Testing
Depending on your application, you will have to assess whether testing on an emulated device or real device is the best option. Many times it is not either/or decision and the best choice is both....
View ArticleThe Case for Automated Mobile Testing
Automating your mobile testing has two main advantages, increasing efficiency and cost savings. With automated testing, imagine you are able to conduct manual tests with simple scripts and run it...
View ArticleIs HTML5 the Answer to Mobile App Development?
There is definitely mixed feelings out in the market on how to build and support mobile apps and websites. On one side you have those that are frustrated with HMTL5 (Facebook and others come to mind)....
View ArticleAs Enterprise Mobility Goes Mainstream, So Will Testing
In a recent article by Steve Levy of Virivo Software, he affirms what we have been hearing from our enterprise customers over the last couple of years, that the world of mobile app and website...
View ArticleUS Analysts Predict a Rapid Migration to Mobile
Over the last 5 years since 2007, we have seen an explosion in mobile apps to make our lives convenient and more efficient. And it appears there is no letting up. Recently, Forrester Research noted...
View ArticleBuilding and Testing Mobile Apps for the Enterprise Doesn't Have to be Expensive
Recently Derek Britton of Micro Focus issued an article giving some great advice on how to develop one’s enterprise mobile strategy. As we have been discussing in recent posts, mobile is expanding...
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