Blogs

EE released their 'double speed' 4G in the UK earlier this month and showed off their new 'shared 4G plans'. This week 51Degrees take a look at how the percentage of mobile devices that browse the web with 4G capabilities.

IIS has had a long running problem where Dynamic Compression overwrites the Vary Header, making effective caching almost impossible. This can now be fixed using the Vary Header modules from 51Degrees.

With Kantar showing that sales for Windows Phone in Australia have declined, 51Degrees take a look at how mobile web traffic from Windows Phone devices has changed over the last 18 months.

Premium Device Detection Data is now available to download.

To celebrate Apple iPhones 6th birthday, 51Degrees take a look at how Apple smartphones are performing up against Samsung smartphones during last month across the world.

We're highlighting the importance of good web site performance on mobile phones by launching our competition to find the web's heaviest site.

We want to you to think about mobile web performance, and to share your thoughts with friends and colleagues. That's why there's a $1000 prize for the heaviest web site entered, and a $300 prize draw for sharing the competition. The heaviest 5 web sites will be given a free copy of 51Degrees.mobi tools. How will your web site perform?

Premium Device Detection Data and Lite Device Detection Data is now available to download.

51Degrees Mobile Detector for Python provides information about the device, operating system and browser accessing your website. I have created a easy to follow example to get you going using the 51Degrees.mobi Python solution with an example Django website.

Offering a great mobile experience to your website users isn't just about creating an optimised user interface. Performance is also a critical component when developing for mobile, enabling your content to load as quickly as possible for any device.

Part of the mobile performance problem lies within web pages being too heavy, slowing down loading times on mobile connections. But how do we test our website to understand how to optimise for performance? Read this blog to find out how.

More and more hardware vendors are releasing 'Phablet' devices into the market, with HTC and Acer being the newest companies to jump on the bandwagon. This week 51Degrees.com take a look at how mobile phone screen sizes browsing the web have changed over the last 20 months.