Back in January I posted numbers gathered from the HigherEd RWD Directory. The size of the list has more than doubled since then. The bad news? Almost every number has increased (that’s a bad thing). Additional stats since last report includes image count, size and percentage of page weight.
On a side note. Last June the directory had 16 entries. Over the course of the year we added 100 responsive/adaptive sites.
HigherEd RWD Sites: 116
Desktop
I tested with a browser width of ~1200px. Load time is based on a combination of tests from SW Michigan and Northern Indiana. Distance to hosts could definitely be a factor.
- Load Time: 3.4 seconds
- Requests: 60.3
- Size: 1.7 MB
- Images 34.7
- Image Size 1.3 MB
- Image % of total page weight 77%
- CSS Files: 6.7
- CSS Size: 101.0 KB
- JS Files: 11.8
- JS Size: 193.1 KB
Small Screen
These numbers were gathered using a desktop browser at a narrow width (~320px) and an iPhone 5 UA string to attempt a simulation of a mobile device. For this reason, “load time” should be taken with an extremely large grain of salt.
- Load time: 3.04 seconds
- Requests: 56.3
- Size: 1.6 MB
- Images 31.4
- Image Size 1.2 MB
- Image % of total page weight 74%
- CSS Files: 6.6
- CSS Size: 101.2 kb
- JS Files: 11.8
- JS Size: 217.7 KB
Mobile Sites
I found 47 dedicated “mobile” sites from the list of 116 RWD sites in the directory to compare numbers. The focus here was on size, not load time.
- Load Time: 1.62 seconds
- Size: 180.4 kb