Alex Russell

DECEMBER 31, 2023

This logic has played out on a loop over the last decade, category-by-category, with gatekeepers preventing competing browsers from bringing capabilities to web apps that would let them supplant app stores [2:1] while simultaneously keeping them from being discovered through existing stores.

Google 93

Google Mobile Games Strategy 93

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

> Lighthouse Scores (Synthetic) Google Lighthouse is an open-source tool that checks your page against rules for Performance, PWA, Accessibility, Best Practice, and SEO. For each of those categories, you get a score out of 100 and recommendations on what to fix.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

On Android this is expressed via specific intent filters in the manifest and listing in the BROWSABLE category. PWA Feature Detector. Features in this category include: Privacy and site quality support, including "acceptable ads" enforcement and browser history clearing. Android's "In-App Browser" Problem(s) #.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

One oligopolist response has been to change anti-competitive behaviour only within small markets, e.g. making changes only to the "dating" category of apps and only within the Netherlands. How can regulators anticipate and get ahead of brazenly bad-faith actions, not only by Apple, but Google and Facebook as well? Geographic Games #.

Google 55

Google Mobile Strategy Games 55

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Apple continues to self-preference through exclusive API access for Safari; e.g., the ability to install PWA s to the home screen, implement media codecs, and much else. Advertisers bid highest to place ads against search keywords in commercial intent categories. Instead, Fruit Co.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Google Lighthouse is an open-source tool that checks your page against rules for Performance, PWA, Accessibility, Best Practice, and SEO. For each of those categories, you get a score out of 100 and recommendations on what to fix. Still, they're worth investigating if you have the resources and the need. >

Performance 135

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 135

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Unless a site is installed to the home screen as a PWA , any single page is just another in a series of documents that users experience as a river of links. If a large enough proportion of sites behave poorly, performance hysteresis may colour user expectations of all web experiences. How bad is it?

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Gatsby (React), Next.js (React), Vuepress (Vue), Preact CLI , and PWA Starter Kit provide reasonable defaults for fast loading out of the box on average mobile hardware. ??Also, You could build progressive web AMPs , too, by reusing AMPs as a data source for your PWA. Large preview ). ad visibility).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145