Tips for Shopping Apps This Holiday Season

  • Matthew Allen

We at HeadSpin love seamless mobile experiences and great deals, and have put together a wishlist for our favorite shopping apps: Test your app/website on all top devices in the market across Android, iOS and browsers in the real world. Your user may not always be accessing your products in the comfort of their home with uninterrupted WiFi, so account for all real-world conditions. Don’t download images larger than the device resolution. This puts the burden on the client-side to download a bigger asset and resize it as well. Consider having a server-side ability to configure height and width of images via the URL parameters. Perform lossless image compression on PNG and JPEG images. Consider using the WEBP image format, which provides great compression and image quality