Mobile web, mobile SEO, UX, apps vs web and the history behind it.

Mobile web performance in 2026 is better understood as a pattern problem than a mystery. Public benchmark data from HTTP Archive, CrUX, and Google documentation shows the same recurring constraints year after year: LCP is still image-led, pages are still heavy, JavaScript still dominates request count, and third parties still crowd the critical path. A focused 42-site homepage audit illustrates how those benchmark patterns appear across ecommerce, news, SaaS, travel, finance, government, and publishing.

The native-or-web question, re-examined as the app stores exploded, and a case for the open web that aged surprisingly well.

A historical look ahead into the mobile web of 2010: growth, devices, infrastructure and what the next wave would demand.

A period piece on why advertisers were underestimating the speed and inevitability of the mobile shift.

The development in the mobile industry is taking giant leaps every week. Its hard to keep up. Lots of new stuff, lots of changing stuff and lots of buzz in general. But this is a Mobiletechers job, so we’ll worry about that for you. Gartner predicts it will be sold 1.4 billion mobile devices in 2009. Many of these will no doubt be iPhones and devices from the “new kids on the block”, such as Garmin for example. These new devices are all Internet devices with wlan and other high speed connectivity methods. Together with advanced browsers this makes the mobile Internet the perfect platform for almost any kind of application.

Well, then the iPad is launched, finally. The internet is full of reviews and opinions, so I will not replicate that.