Smartphone Browser localStorage is up to 5x Faster than Native Cache New Research | Mobify

As a web developer you know that creating engaging web UX means means quickly delivering content that captures your visitors attention.

The storage API, including localStorage, was designed to help web developers provide more app-like behaviour for the web than cookies previously allowed.

But it turns out you can also use localStorage to make your mobile website faster!

How much faster? Well, you can load some critical path resources such as a JavaScript thats required for your UX up to 3 – 5x faster using localStorage than from the browsers native cache. Using millions of data points from Real User Monitoring RUM I had the following surprising results.

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