Title :
Toward Mobile-Friendly Web Browsing
Author_Institution :
Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN, USA
Abstract :
Smartphones´ and tablets´ rapid proliferation makes content providers publish mobile versions of webpages. But are they indeed mobile-friendly? This article takes a cross-layer investigation of the mobile Web, and reveals why joint efforts in the mobile ecosystem are needed to achieve mobile-friendly Web browsing.
Keywords :
Internet; Web sites; mobile computing; smart phones; Webpage mobile version; content providers; mobile ecosystem; mobile-friendly Web browsing; smartphones; tablets; Bandwidth; Browsers; Load management; Mobile communication; Protocols; Servers; Web and internet services; Internet/Web technologies; mobile Web; mobile systems; mobile-friendly Web browsing;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2015.98
