We report the first work that examines the internals of web browsers on smartphones, using
the WebKit codebase, two generations of Android smartphones, and webpages visited by 25 …

Mobile browser is known to be slow because of the bottleneck in resource loading. Client-
only solutions to improve resource loading are attractive because they are immediately …

Mobile page load times are an order of magnitude slower compared to non-mobile pages. It
is not clear what causes the poor performance: the slower network, the slower computational …

Multiple entities in the smartphone ecosystem employ various methods to provide better web
browsing experience. In this paper, we take a first comprehensive examination of the …

Despite web access on mobile devices becoming commonplace, users continue to
experience poor web performance on these devices. Traditional approaches for improving …

Users in developing regions still suffer from poor web performance, mainly due to their
unique landscape of low-end devices. In this paper, we uncover a root cause of this …

Mobile devices have become the primary mode of Internet access. Yet, differences in mobile
hardware resources, such as device memory, coupled with the rising complexity of Web …

A large fraction of users in developing regions use relatively inexpensive, low-end
smartphones. However, the impact of device capabilities on the performance of mobile …

We present Proteus, a novel network-aware approach for optimizing web browsing on
heterogeneous multi-core mobile systems. It employs machine learning techniques to …

Proliferation of data-enabled mobile devices has fueled the popularity of smartphone
applications (apps) at a rapid pace, and the trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable …