Why do so many mobile versions of sites run worse on phone than desktop versions?
Why do so many mobile versions of sites run worse on phone than desktop versions?
I swear every mobile site is absolute garbage that runs like ass on phones.
Because modern web is bloatware. Too much javascript, CSS, ads and cookie popups. A phone's hardware and internet speeds are generally not as fast as a desktop. So, it takes much longer to render on a phone.
Also, a lot websites nowadays deliberately make their mobile web experience shitty (cough ** reddit cough) to force their users to install their app.
Not every developer designs their site for mobile. Some design it for desktop, others for apps, some for phones.
At least some of it is shitty companies either neglecting to optimize or even outright sabotaging their own sites to try and force you to install their data harvesting app so they can sell more of your data for profit.
The rest is just lazy devs not optimizing because they're lazy and/or underpaid and overworked.
And the data harvesting app is nothing more than a stripped-down browser with the company's color scheme slapped on it.
Or a junior dev implemented it and somehow it passed code review. Then when it was tested by the dev on localhost, it ran great. Then when (if) it hit qa, it was ran on local servers and worked fine.
A lot of things slip through the cracks. That’s what hot fixes and patches are for. It happens.
Seriously, fuck Instagram and Pinterest so much. I have those sites blocked from my searches permanently for just this reason.
You have to cram everything into a much smaller space while still having the whole thing be usable with much more clumsy touch inputs. Thos are serious limitations.
If 60% of the screen is taken up by some form of ad, that's a design choice not a technical hurdle.
I think some of the web frameworks people use are converting the desktop site into a mobile layout by applying additional CSS and layers ontop of it that makes it more inefficient.
If done well this isn't a noticeable performance impact. CSS is blazingly fast and even mobile devices can handle thousands of rules essentially instantly... sometimes, however, modern web frameworks use Javascript to either dynamically rewrite rules or, worse even, manually apply different styles to individual elements based on page width.
Also, react is a bloated piece of shit that can make any page take forever to load on a 3g or lower connection... and it's extremely popular.
Ads maybe? Firefox + uBlock Origin might help with some sites that have ads for trackers.
I don’t find that to be true. What device are you using?
For example the mastodon app on iOS sucks ass.