A Visual Method to Find Performance Bottlenecks for Mobile Web and Hybrid Applications

It is very difficult to test web performance on a smart mobile, where performance is often an issue, because of lacking such kinds of tools. In this paper, we provide a new method to let mobile web developers to find the performance bottlenecks of their web and hybrid applications easily. The method is based on the concept of Timed Operation Execution Chart, which allows developers to visualize the internal execution order and duration of hundreds of HTML processing operations for each HTML page, without having to change the web application or the web server. The proposed method has been applied to 3 typical mobile web applications and the preliminary results show the approach can help us to identify bottlenecks in these applications.