mekhij wrote:How much less is the data volume, typically, for a mobile application compared with the desktop equivalent?
We assume that for the "desktop equivalent" you mean the data volume fed to a browser on a PC's desktop, OK.
We have seen as much as a ~70:1 variation in the size of the file delivered to a desktop based PC compared with the size of the material delivered to a mobile application. That means that if you are on a desktop in, for example, the IE browser (of which eValid is a clone), a page of 700 KBytes would be served to a mobile device at about 10 KBytes -- in other words, very much less actual content.
But -- important caveat here! -- this key ratio depends on the properties of the page and it depends on the mobile device. and it depends on the policies in pace by the page provider.
Also, we have seen
some web servers that simply refuse to delivery ANY content to certain kinds of mobile devices. Strange but true. It seems in these cases there is a competitive reason to NOT serve pages into a particular device -- e.g. one made by a competitor, perhaps.
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