All learning paths Learn See Try Make Build for a phone and a slow line What this lesson is about Test on the cheapest phone you can borrow, with the network throttled. That is your real user.
Your tool opens at once on your laptop and you have never once opened it on a four-year-old phone. What now?
A Send the link out and ask people whether it feels slow. B Test on the cheapest phone you can borrow, with the network slowed down. C Open it on an old phone at home, where the signal is full.
Check my recall Why this matters The accessibility standard asks that content still work in a column about as wide as a phone. No sideways scrolling. Your own laptop can never show you whether it does.
Test your build on a cheap phone and a slow line, and fix what breaks there first.
The accessibility standard asks that content still work in a column about as wide as a phone. No sideways scrolling. Your own laptop can never show you whether it does.
Test on the cheapest phone you can borrow, with the network slowed down. Big images, fonts and network waits break first; show something without them. Every screen must work in one narrow column you can reach with a thumb. Task Your tool opens instantly on your laptop, and you have never opened it on a cheap phone.
Weak approach Sends the link out and asks people to say if it feels slow. Two of them stop replying.
Stronger approach Borrows a four-year-old phone, slows the network, and watches a blank screen for nine seconds. Removes the big header image and the web font. Text now appears at once.
Why the stronger approach works Asking people how it feels gets you opinions. Watching one blank screen for nine seconds gets you the two things to delete.
Try a changed situation Your page loads in under a second on your laptop but takes nine seconds on a village line at midday. What do you change first?
Make something yourself Open your build on a low-cost phone on a slow connection and take screenshots. Then write the three things you changed after seeing them, and why each one.
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