The World Wide Web (WWW) empowers people in developing regions by eradicating
illiteracy, supporting women, and generating economic opportunities. However, their …

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 …

To quickly create interactive web pages, developers heavily rely on (large) general-purpose
JavaScript libraries. This practice bloats web pages with complex unused functions dead …

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 …

We design and implement LRP, a device-based, standard-compliant solution to latency
reduction in mobile networks. LRP takes a data-driven approach. It works with a variety of …

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 …

Remote dependency resolution (RDR) is a proxy-driven scheme for reducing mobile page
load times; a proxy loads a requested page using a local browser, fetching the page's …

Context: Fast loading web apps can be a key success factor in terms of user experience.
However, improving the performance of a web app is not trivial, since it requires a deep …

The amount of JavaScript used in web pages has substantially grown in the past decade,
leading to large and complex pages that are computationally intensive for handheld mobile …

JavaScript contributes to the increasing complexity of today's web. To support user
interactivity and accelerate the development cycle, web developers heavily rely on large …