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kpeatton Perceived Performance: Ways to Make Your Mobile Site Feel Like a Native App

In situations like this it's definitely important to get that response lag down as much as possible — you're looking at direct 1:1 control with that though which is slightly different than a tap. Like you said, it all depends on the situation.

kpeatton Perceived Performance: Ways to Make Your Mobile Site Feel Like a Native App

Thanks for the read, notatoad. You make a great point. This article isn't about looking native — it's about feeling native. The best part about the web is that it's platform agnostic. Most of the gestures and actions that feel natural to us are cross-platform so it's great that we can rely on those to get us where we need to go.

kpeatton Perceived Performance: Ways to Make Your Mobile Site Feel Like a Native App

100ms is a really good upper limit for that 'instant' feel. Of course, if you can get it lower, you definitely should. Nielsen finds 100ms is sufficient to feel instant but isn't the only number, of course. And, like you said, compared to other web apps it'll definitely look better.

kpeatton Perceived Performance: Ways to Make Your Mobile Site Feel Like a Native App

Yeah, definitely. It's still too bad that I have to tell iOS when I want to use it — and it comes with that status bar bug. But at least it's there to use.